Ethernet not up After Clone Virtual Machine

Error: ifup: vmnics device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initializing

Solution: Follow below procedure to resolve this issue in cloned virtual machine:

Stop Network service

# /etc/init.d/network stop

Remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules File

# rm -rf /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Open /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Remove value of HWADDR and comment or UUID from configuration
Reboot server
Add HWADDR value in ifcfg-eth0 from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file
Restart Network Service

Ethernet not up After Clone Virtual Machine

Error: ifup: vmnics device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initializing

Solution: Follow below procedure to resolve this issue in cloned virtual machine:

Stop Network service

# /etc/init.d/network stop

Remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules File

# rm -rf /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Open /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Remove value of HWADDR and comment or UUID from configuration
Reboot server
Add HWADDR value in ifcfg-eth0 from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file
Restart Network Service

Virtual Machine Backup in VMWare

Description : Here I have describe how to take Virtual Machine backup using shell script

Procedure :

Download script from below URL:

https://github.com/lamw/ghettoVCB

Upload it in server using winscp
Login ssh console using putty
Go to location where you have copy extracted folder [ghettoVCB-master]
Give execute permission to ghettoVCB.sh file using below command

# chmod +x ghettoVCB.sh

Create one file name vmbackup where write all vm name like as follow:

VM1

VM2

VM3

Open ghettoVCB.sh file and make changes as follow:

VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/vmbackup ### Backup Location ####

VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT=2 ### Backup Retention File ###

Run below command to start backup

# ./ghettoVCB.sh -f vmbackup

To set cron job in VMWare open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file

30 4 * * 6 /bin/sh /vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f /vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/ghettoVCB-master/vmbackup

Note: In example I have set backup at every saturday 4:30 AM backup