vmware time sync

[gboskin]

I have a client with about 100 vms and need to change most of the vm not to time sync from the esx host . This is due to the fact . Just wondering what the best way to do this is?

[dquintana]

Hello gboskin,

I like recommend to use a physical set of servers working as a time server, and all the infrastructure work with this servers, in this case you need to disable the time synchronization in the guest vms and set to use the physical time servers.

Other option is synchronize the ESX with this physical time servers or a mixed mode.

Here you have a very interesting PDF about this practices.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

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[mittim12]

Here is code taken from the powershell forum that shows how to enable time sync with host. Maybe you can test the code with the $FALSE to see if it disables the time sync.

Get-VM | % { Get-View $_.ID} | `

% {

$spec = new-object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

$spec.tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

$spec.tools.syncTimeWithHost = $true

Get-View($_.ReconfigVM_Task($spec))

}

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