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 an NSP VM in a VMware environment, you must apply a VMware workaround described in the article before you attempt to install any NSP 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