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