Why the network of a VM which is cloned from other system does not comes up ?

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Issue

  • This is a VMware virtual system and is cloned from some other system.
  • Changed its 'MAC' address and HOSTNAME , still network on the system is not getting start. Why ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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