@Matthew Vassallo Thank you for reaching out to us. happy to assist you!
I understand you're unable to validate your vault credentials on your VMware machine.
Are you trying to install MARS agent on your VMware host or on a VM?
Could you please verify the version of MARS agent installed on the machine?
Latest version being 2.0.9249.0. Download latest version of MARS agent, might help resolve the issue.
Let us know how it goes!
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