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alinik
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‎08-07-2012 08:35 AM

NTP time synchronization not working

Hi,

My ESXi nodes are offline so I installed a local ntp server based on linux. I configured the ntp.conf file in the server and added the ip address of the server to the time configuration of the host. Time is not updated in the node.

I would like to know what is the proper confifuration of ntp server so that the esxi can update the time ?

Thanks,

Ali

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weinstein5
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‎08-07-2012 10:26 AM

To configure the time in the vSphere client

  1. From the Hosts and Clusters view, select the host to be configured and click the Configuration tab.
  2. Select Time Configuration and click Properties.
  3. On the Time Configuration screen, click Options.
  4. Select NTP Settings
  5. Click Add.
  6. Enter the IP address of your NTP server and click OK.
  7. Select Restart NTP service to apply changes. Click OK.
  8. Select NTP Client Enabled. Click OK.
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alinik
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‎08-07-2012 10:32 AM

Thanks, but all of these steps were done and the time is not updated.

Do you know what the configuration should be on the server side?

The following is the content of my ntp.conf file on the ntp server.

driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
server    127.0.0.1
fudge    127.0.0.1 stratum 1
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict 192.168.17.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
restrict -4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery
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