VM Time Sync method - Can you report on this in vROPs?

[RobertWLSEG]

Hi All,

I was recently asked to provide a list of all VMs and to show their time sync methods. Shouldn't be a problem I thought, create a view with VM Name, SyncTimeWithHost flag and a few useful identity type fields and away I go. However, I have been unable to find a relevant metric against the VM. I ended up having to create the list with PowerCLI as follows;

Get-View -ViewType virtualmachine | select name,@{N='Time sync with host';E={$_.Config.Tools.SyncTimeWithHost } } | Export-Csv "c:\temp\TimeSyncStatus.csv" -NoTypeInformation

But what I'd really like to do is get this in a vROPs report. Does anyone know if the equivalent metric is revealed in vROPs?

Thanks in advance,

[GayathriS]

Hi Robert

Could you please explain more on what exactly you are trying to achieve from vrops with respective to time syn of VM, based on that I cna tell you if vrops really helps you in that .

[RobertWLSEG]

Hi, thanks for getting back to me.

That PowerCLI script will output a list of VMs connected to the vCenter I connect to and then a column with  "True" if the VM sync's its time source with its host server, or "False" if it has any other sync method (direct NTP, no sync etc). I want vROPs to give me a 2 column report (initially) with VM name and its sync method.

Regards,

Robert.

[GayathriS]

I dont think with vrops you can get VM's time sync, because I have not seen a time sync metric in vrops .

VM name is possible by default .

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