Ubuntu 20.04 Template deactivates network adapter

[FTeupke]

Hello,

I have observed a really strange behaviour, where Templates I create from Ubuntu Server 20.04 VMs will automatically disconnect the Network Adapter when deployed.
I make sure to check "Connect" and "Connect at Power On" in the creation wizard every time.
The Ubuntu VMs I created the templates from were deployed using the Ubuntu Cloud OVA, but I have since observed the same behaviour with VMs I manually installed from the Ubuntu Server ISO.
I'm running vSphere 7 with vCenter 7.0.1 and ESXi 7.0.0.

Has anyone observed similar behaviour? I saw some reddit thread describing the same behaviour the other day, but can't find it now.

I'm looking forward to hearing about your experiences!

Greetings, Felix

[SirWobbyTheFirs]

I'm getting this too on a 6.7 installation, the network adapter is brought up during boot up and I can see the IP address show up in VMware Workstation as the VM boots but then once it gets to the login screen, the network adapter is disconnected and I have to do sudo ip link set ens192 up to bring the interface back up and it persists until a reboot at which point it's gone.

Can we can get some feedback please instead of just being ignored?

[scott28tt]

@SirWobbyTheFirs 

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