vCD NTP Time

[BostanHussain]

Our VMs within the vDCs are an hour ahead. NTP on ESXi hosts is correct. Is there a NTP time source I would need to change on the vCD cell at all? Where do the VMs get their time source from?

[LooseMoose]

You’ll need to ensure the following is all set:

-vCenter

-ESXi Host

-Host BIOS

if running CentOS there is a separate NTP configuration required on each cell too.

[Sreec]

Just to clarify , are you referring to workload VM's NTP configuration or VCD-Cell VM'S NTP configuration ?  There is no direct mapping for NTP between VCD Cell VM and Virtual Machine . In both the case either we sync to ESXI host or prefer a native NTP configuration. When i say sync via ESXI host -> VMware Tools sets the time of the guest operating system to be the same as the time of the host , Native NTP configuration is -> Network Time Protocol (NTP) for Linux and the Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows Time Service (Win32Time) for Windows