ntp

How to setup NTP services by PowerCLI

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NTP service is very important for troubleshooting, vmkernel log timestamp is incorrect if your NTP service is not running and ESXi system time is wrong. It can also impact to VM system time even you disable time synchronization on VMware Tools since VM still need to sync time with ESXi after awake from suspended status, … Read more

Time synchronization on virtual machine

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Guest OS of virtual machine can synchronize time by several way, such as NTP, VMware Tools, Windows Time Service, CMOS…etc. VMware Tools synchronize time with ESXi host when  you enable periodic time synchronization. VMware Tools time synchronization function is disabled by default, but that’s doesn’t means time synch never happens between guest OS and host. It still … Read more