Vmware hardware tools update causes interface renaming issues in RHEL 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After updating vmware-hardware-tools, the network interfaces are presented with different names than expected, such as eno0123456.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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