Vmware - eth0 removed after cloning or moving from Workstation to Esxi

I recently setup a Bitnami WordPress on a local copy of Vmware workstation. This was fine for testing, but I then needed to deploy in a production environment, specifically on Esxi 4.x. The convert ran fine and the VM moved over, but when booting eth0 was not available and hence the stack was inaccessible.
It appears that something happens to the net rules during the conversion process. In order to remove saved rules, just rename the following file and reboot to restore eth0:

sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.old

Then perform a reboot:

sudo shutdown -r now

and all should be fine....