VM Bridges are in the "down" state on a RHEV-H reboot
Issue
On a system with 8 NIC interfaces, the VM bridge devices are marked as "down" when the RHEV-H systems reboot. This causes the VM's to be unable to access any networks. Logging into the system and running "ifup <bridge>" re-enables the bridge devices and the VM's can access the networks they are configured to access.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H) 2.2 based on RHEL 5.6 and earlier
Logical Networks/bridges that begin with lo*
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