OSCustomizationSpec and RHEL9 with NetworkManager

[alpatio]

Hello,

For many time I've used Powercli and OSCustomizationSpec to assign Network settings to VM Os.

But with the Release of RHEL9 the classical /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-files  will be no longer supported

If I deploy a template with RH9 using OSCustomization Scripts, I'll have a duplicated network configuration for the ifcfg-ens192

one ifcfg-ens192 file is created at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and another under /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. And both were active when I type nmcli con show

I've tested configuring NetworkManager.conf assigning this parameter to plugin entry, I've removed ifcfg-rh
[main]
plugins = keyfile

With this configuration I only have active the NetworkManager configuration, but there is still a file created under 'network-scripts', the file is still created by the OsCustomization Script (the file contains this note).

My question is, how should I deploy a RHEL9 that should use NetworkManager? and avoid the automatic creation of network-script files?
should I change My deployment method? If Yes? how should assign Network settings to the deployed virtual machine?

can I still continue using OsCustomization with RHEL9? 

My current powercli version is VMware.PowerCLI 13.0.0 build 20829139

Thanks in advance

Regards

[LucD]

See KB88199

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[alpatio]

Hi LucD,

My current problem is that file is that an additional file is created under network-scripts, it's quite similar as described in the article, but I'll have higher versions that are reported on the article.

I've tested de WorkAroud, but it didn't clear the network-script file.

I've realized that my Rhel 9 already has cloud-init, and perhaps is interfering the setup. But I don't know how to deal with Cloud-Init because  I'm deploying a template using  Powercli and can't see how to pass parameters to cloud-init using OSCustomization

I've also tried to disable cloud-init -> touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled , but then the new IP address is not set.

How should I deploy a RHEL9 using powercli? Rhel9 deprecates the usage of network-scripts that seems that is the method used when a template is deployed using the powercli OSCustomization 

Regards

Regards

[LucD]

I did a blog series on Cloud-init, and although I used Ubuntu, the concept should be the same for RHEL.
Have a look, it might give you some pointers

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