I recently setup a new VMWare server on one of our older Dell servers (2850 with 8GB RAM 6X300GB SAS). And since I’m eventually redoing the primary VMWare server, I wanted to move all the critical virtual machines to the secondary server (for obvious reasons).

So far everything has been moving great, but I did have one issue:
After moving our collaboration helpdesk server, I could no longer remotely access the virtual machine.

ifconfig showed that only the l0 was loading.
nano /etc/networking/interfaces displayed both the l0 and eth0 settings
ifconfig -a informed me that in the transition, the virtual machine decided to change the ethernet device to eth1
nano /etc/networking/interfaces and I changed all the eth0 to eth1
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart or just reboot the server