Hey,
Currently working on a new ESXi5/vCenter5 installation and having a strange problem when cloning my RHEL6 VMs. I've setup a base VM to use as a template and have them cloned it to a template OK.
When I deploy a new VM from that template and use the customization wizard to give it a new name, static IP etc, I get mixed results. The first time I did this all went well and the new VM when I went to its console had the new name and new IP.
I then did another VM from the same template but it didn't give it a new name or IP? I tried again and it did the same thing, so I tried once more and this time it worked OK? I can't see whats causing it to be so hit an miss? Haven't had this problem in the past with RHEL5 and it always works fine with Windows VMs ala sysprep.
Also, how come the RHEL Vms which do deploy OK, end up getting eth0 changed to eth1?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy