Why VMware Virtual Machine is getting hung at Network Interface initialization while booting?

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Issue

  • Servers Hanging on boot at ETH interface.

  • While booting system is getting hung at the stage of eth interface introduction.

  • Manual Service network restart in Single User Mode works fine.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

  • vmxnet3 drivers

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