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NukikMW
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Strange "ghosted" Network in the system

Hi,

I am currently evaluating vSphere 5.1.

There are imported 13 servers into the test environment - and they are basically working quite good.

On three of the servers (they are running Suse Linux) there are a strange "extra" network.

It is not created on either of the ESXi servers - there are other Suse Servers without the extra network - it cannot be deleted.

The name is the original name that I renamed to the name just above.

What is it?

Best regards

Michael Williams

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Troy_Clavell
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do you have an active snapshot or possibly an iso mounted to the guest?

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Troy_Clavell
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do you have an active snapshot or possibly an iso mounted to the guest?

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NukikMW
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snapshot was spot on right.

Yes - those three servers all had a snapshot made before I installed VM Tools and uninstalled all the HP drivertools.

After deleting the snap shots all ghosted network are gone.

But why?????

I can see that knowledge about an old network named "VM Network" exists inside the snapshot - but making it visible outside that - does that make sense?

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rickardnobel
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NukikMW wrote:

I can see that knowledge about an old network named "VM Network" exists inside the snapshot - but making it visible outside that - does that make sense?

It is just a way to expose the fact the snapshot contains a network card "attached" to the old virtual switch portgroup.

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