Consider updating the vmware-os-type & vmware-hw-version for RHEL 9
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Description
See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88157:
On VMware vSphere 7.0U3 and later, please choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 as the guest operating system only in Virtual Machines where the user selects or upgrades the virtual hardware version to 18 or later.
In https://github.com/openshift/os/blob/master/image-rhel-9.0.yaml.
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Research direction
Open image-rhel-9.0.yaml and review the existing vmware-os-type and vmware-hw-version values. Compare them with the VMware KB guidance for RHEL 9 on vSphere 7.0U3 and later, then update the RHEL 9 configuration to reflect that guidance.
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- linux
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- operating-systems
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- Feature
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