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
 

Log in as the root user on the station that hosts the partition.


Open a console window.


Open the following file using a text editor such as vi:

/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg


Add the following line:

manual_cache_clean: True


Save and close the file.


Close the console window.

End of steps