[BlueOnyx:13590] Re: NICs on VMWare ESXi

[Stephanie Sullivan]

William,

Take a look at (on a BX5108 install):

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

It will have lines like (will probably wrap in email):
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x1659 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:40:d0:a3:77:62", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1065 (e100)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:40:d0:a3:77:63", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth1"

Bet you have 4 on your new VM at eth2 and eth3... You may need to rearrange
them so your virtual NIC's MAC addresses and names for eth0 and eth1 match
the ones available on your virtual instance. This is an issue around cloning
an install on real machines too. 

Another consideration is cloning a machine which is newlinq registered. This
can cause issues of another sort. I'll defer to Gregg or Michael to wax
poetic on those possible issues... I've run afoul of those. If you have not
installed 3rd party stuff before cloning - no worries.

Hope this helps.

	Thanks,
		-Stephanie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Thackrey [mailto:wethackrey at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 9:53 AM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:13585] NICs on VMWare ESXi
> 
> I've run into an odd problem, and was wondering if anyone on the list
> had seen (and hopefully solved) it.  I'm setting up a Dell R805
> server with VMWare ESXi 5.1.  Running the free version of ESXi at the
> moment.  No vCenter, No vCloud Director.  I've built a BlueOnyx 5108R
> VM with 2 NICs by spinning up a VM with no OS, mounting the ISO and
> installing it.  The VM behaves as expected.  I then cloned the VM by
> copying the vmx and vmdk files into a new directory in the datastore,
> renaming the vmx file and adding it to inventory.  (Without cVenter
> or vCD, there's no "Clone VM" function available from the ESXi GUI.)
> 
> The problem is that the new VM has no NICs, nor does it "remember"
> the IP addresses of the original VM.  I can add an address for eth0
> using the network_settings.sh script, but it looks like the actual
> NIC devices are missing.  They're there in the vmx file and in the VM
> settings in the ESXi GUI.  I can remove and add NICs in the VM
> settings in the ESXi GUI, but those NICs either never show up in the
> VM itself, or, if they do, are not persistent through a restart.
> 
> Note that this does not happen with other VM types.  Scientific
> Linux, Ubuntu and various WIndows VMs work correctly.  This seems
> limited to BlueOnyx.
> 
> Ideas anyone?
> 
> 
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