OVF/OVA Creation in VMWare for CentOS - Renamed Interfaces

Created an OVA file to 'deploy' to another ESX Server and ran into an issue with the network interfaces.  The Export of the OVA and the IMPORT went ok.  But when I booted the machine and started to check connectivity i noticed there was no interfaces showing up when I ran the ifconfig command.


When I searched dmesg for errors I found:

Which pointed me to the etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file.  Examining the file I found the 'original' interfaces were in there and renamed, and there were 2 new interfaces added.

I checked the NIC under the VMWare Settings and see that the 'assigned' MAC matches eth3 from the 70-persistent-net.rules file (shown below).  The other NIC MAC matches eth2.

Modified the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and removed the old entries and renamed the new entries to match the proper interface:

Updated the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx files so they have the proper MAC/HWADDR values.

Reboot after changes, and everything is awesome!