To apply the VMware cloud-init workaround
Purpose
The following VMware knowledge-base article describes how the cloud-init configuration fails to persist through a reboot, and instead defaults to DHCP.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/71264
If you deploy a CLM VM in a VMware environment, you must apply a VMware workaround described in the article before you attempt to install any CLM software on the VM.
Perform this procedure to apply the workaround from VMware.
Steps
1   | 
 Log in as the root user on the station that hosts the partition.  | 
2   | 
 Open a console window.  | 
3   | 
 Open the following file using a text editor such as vi: /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg  | 
4   | 
 Add the following line: manual_cache_clean: True  | 
5   | 
 Save and close the file.  | 
6   | 
 Close the console window. End of steps  |