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Hi,

I am trying to setup a RHEL7 VMware Linx VM on Vcenter 6.5 with ansible 2.9 with multiple adapters, it looks I am getting inconsistent results with the VMware adapter mac address and OS level ethx mapping. First I created with one interface (eth0), it works perfectly and matches with VM adapter mac address and OS interface output. When I add two or three adapters with vmware_guest or vmware_guest_network module, the order of the creation works fine but on the os level mac address does not matches to the order of the VM adapter VLAN.

Example:

vars:
network_interfaces:

  • name: VLAN1
    type:static
    ip: 1.1.1.1
    netmask: 255.255.255.0
  • name: VLAN2
  • name: VLAN3

I just want to create eth0 ip/netmask during the initial VM creation and configure the eth1, eth2 with Ansible at the later stage.

On the playbook, I call the network_interfaces variable

networks: “{{ network_interfaces }}”
wait_for_ip_address: yes

Does anyone come across the issue? Just wondering am I missing on the network_interfaces variable definition.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi - Just to update, it seems the issue relate to the VMXnet3 driver where VM configured with 4 or more adapters cause this ordering issue and not related to ansible module.

https://support.kemptechnologies.com/hc/en-us/articles/201978745-When-adding-4-or-more-VMXNET3-NICs-to-a-VLM-in-VMware-the-order-is-wrong