cloud-init configuration is not appliad on a RHEL 7 VM in VMware

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When deploying a RHEL 7.9 VM in VMware using a OVA file, the cloud-init configuration supplied using the VM advanced settings fields guestInfo.metadata and guestInfo.userdata are not being applied.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9
    • cloud-init-19.4-7.el7_9.6.x86_64
  • VMware hypervisor

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