“Device eth0 does not seem to be present” after moving or cloning a RHEL/CentOS 6.3 Virtual Machine in VSphere

You may see this error message after cloning or moving a machine in VSphere. It could happen when you are not using distributed switch or you are moving one Virtual Machine to another host where this machine is unable to find the same network label. When you power on CentOS/RHEL 6.4 linux machine it encounters the error “Device eth0 does not seem to be present”.

2020-02-13T04:45:31+00:00