I am having issues with the time on my ESXi 5.1 (1065491) VMware farm. The farm consists of three separate physical servers (2 - Dell PowerEdge 1950, 1 - Dell PowerEdge 2950). The Virtual Center Server is a VM on the farm housed on ESXi2, it displays the correct time as well as the SQL Server which is also a VM housed on ESXi3. There are no VMs on ESXi1 currently.
The time keeps jumping 4 days and 3 hours into the past no matter what I do. I am using NTP but still the time skews. I change it manually with the following commands:
hwclock -d 01/05/2015 -t 14:06:00
esxcli system time set -y 2015 -M 01 -d 05 -H 14 -m 06 -s 00
esxcli hardware clock set -y 2015 -M 01 -d 05 -H 14 -m 06 -s 00
It then shows the correct time in vSphere Client then between 30 secs to 1 min it reverts back to the past. Time when it reverts displays 01/01/2015 06:05 on all three servers. It shows that NTP Client is running and the correct NTP servers are listed.
The /etc/ntp.conf looks like this:
restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer
restrict 127.0.0.1
server ##.##.##.##
server ##.##.##.##
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
Where ##.##.##.## is the internal IP addresses of our NTP servers. The /etc/ntp.drift looks like this:
~ # cat /etc/ntp.drift
44.046
In Configuration => Software => Security Profile => Firewall Properties, SSH Server, SSH Client, and NTP Client are enabled.
In Configuration => Software => Security Profile => Services Properties, NTP Daemon and SSH are running.
I am at a loss...
