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NTP issue on ESXi 6.5 hosts
Hi All,
I have a cluster that will go live in a couple of months time, but was being managed by the VCSA I am already running. I checked out the cluster last week to find both hosts disconnected, and I cannot add them back. When trying to add them I get:
* A general system error occurred: Unable to push signed certificate to host ; &
* Authenticity of the host's SSL certificate is not verified.
it looks like it has to do with the NTP on the hosts. I have tried setting them manually but they are default to UTC time (I live in South Africa) and I have no way to change this. Can anyone advise?
Thanks!
Craig
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It's probably not a matter of time.
Do you have a tick on the VCSA VM?
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Hello,
vSphere hosts use UTC by design and cannot be changed. But the vCenter management tools translate to locate time for you.
But you can try the following: VMware Knowledge Base
Also for Vcenter, By design, the Timezone is set to UTC and cannot be changed in the vCenter Server Appliance console. The vSphere Client and Web Client change the time to match the timezone the users computer is currently in.
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Hassan Alkak
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Thanks, the VCSA manages (currently!) 3 separate clusters. 2 of the clusters have the correct time, the other cluster, in the case of this query, is 2 hours out. If I set the time manually, the 2 hosts stay out by 2 hours. If I select the NTP server on site, they stay 2 hours out.
If I try reconnecting them, I get the certificate error. The VCSA is set to JHB time which is 100% correct and it works.
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The text is not clear why different times.
But for the experiment, you can try to deploy a new vCenter on the host from this cluster and try adding these hosts to the new vCenter.
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Hi,
Not an option as the VCSA is in an HA cluster. The other 2 clusters pick up the correct time.
Since it's not in a productive state yet I might just go and reinstall them.
Thanks!