Vmotion OS time issue

[amitpeled]

I have Two ESX machine, each machine set to different time.

When I do a vmotion to a Windows 2003 from on ESX to the other the OS get the new ESX time and doesn't preseved the OS time.

I have vmware tools installed on the OS and I checked out the "Time synchronization ..." option.

It takes couple on minutes till the OS time sync via the domain controller.

Any way to fix that ?

[Lightbulb]

Set the ESX hosts to sync with an external time source.

[Rumple]

Just out of curiousity...

If you are having machines vmotion, etc why are they on different time zones/settings.

I would actually have expected that to cause problems with syncronization and reporting,etc...

[Craig_Baltzer]

Even if timesync is turned off in the VMware client tools, there are still operations that cause the guest time to be sync'd with the ESX host.

• Suspend and resume

• Snapshot and revert to snapshot

• Disk shrink

• vMotion

Have a look at at page 16 on how to disable all synchronization for a guest.

[jasonboche]

Power on as well.

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[amitpeled]

Thank you Craig,

I'll try this one out and update the results.

[amitpeled]

The " time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE" " did the trick.

Again

Thanks.

[jasonboche · Accepted solution]

The " time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE" " did the trick.

Again

Thanks.

Perhaps you could consider awarding points for correct/helpful answers.

Thank you,

Jas

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