This is an indispensable tip for smoothly migrating Ubuntu virtual machines across VMware hosts and having networking work.

Edit by adding the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:

# ignore VMware virtual interfaces

ATTR{address}==”00:0c:29:*”, GOTO=”persistent_net_generator_end”

ATTR{address}==”00:50:56:*”, GOTO=”persistent_net_generator_end”

via Migrating Ubuntu Servers | Leo’s Ramblings.