Esxi5 time zone problem

what is the time zone on the Client?

because vSphere translates the time to that of the client.

login to the server and check time

check alerts on the host what is the alarm, it is unlikely to be time!

also is the servers hardware clock set to UTC.

also try stopping and starting ntp clientbon server and checking NTP source

Vcenter is installed on a windows 2008 server and it has right time

and  Vsphere clients is installed on windows 7 pc, and it has right time ..
which one are you saying ??

PC, where the client is installed.

check the server, login to console or ssh

any alarms in vCenter?

its utc -dublin,london time ..

which is fine
but the hour is wrong ..
its something 45 min forward then original time ..

this from ssh to esxi5

~ # date
Tue Mar 13 20:33:56 UTC 2012
~ #


I am connecting to vcenter via Vshpere client ..

there is not any alarm

but as soon as i enable ntp client, there is a yellwo sign , ( you can see that from picture)

yes, Red usually means, it's not Syncing or getting a time!

should be Black

Stop NTP, Change time on HOST, to roughly correct time, and then start NTP.

but how do you change the time in esxi server??

~ # date --help
BusyBox v1.9.1-VMware-visor-6030 (2011-02-15 14:57:41 PST) multi-call binary

Usage: date [OPTION]... [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] [+FORMAT]

Display current time in the given FORMAT, or set system date

Options:
        -R              Outputs RFC-822 compliant date string
        -d STRING       Displays time described by STRING, not 'now'
        -I[TIMESPEC]    Outputs an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string
                        TIMESPEC='date' (or missing) for date only,
                        'hours', 'minutes', or 'seconds' for date and
                        time to the indicated precision
        -D hint         Use 'hint' as date format, via strptime()
        -s STRING       Sets time described by STRING
        -r FILE         Displays the last modification time of FILE
        -u              Prints or sets Coordinated Universal Time

ok i changed the time manually

then started ntp ..
its not red any more..

does it mean.. its getting time from time serveR??
i guess no ..
is not it ?

thats odd
chaning date from Vshpere client  does not effect on server

let me try from command line

it does.. sorry ... my head is not straight

but how will i know that its actually getting time from ntp server??

you need to check ntp server, first with software.....

make sure firewalls ports are open, check logs

on a windows server you can use

w32tm /stripchart /computer:<time server> /samples:5 /dataonly

ok problem is
after i enable ntp..
the yellow sign is not going ??

how to remove that yellow sign?

is the time still displayed in RED?

did you check yout time source?

can the ESXi 5.0 server ping the time server?

ntp server is not blocked?

try another time server?

yes , i just tryed a internal ntp server

and other debian server they can get time from this server.,..

and this esxi is in same network and it can ping to that server...

is it just this single ESXi server : restart it

is it still Displayed as RED?

no, its gone to black now

i have restarted couple of times..
still its same ...

check /var/log/syslogs.log, this is where ntp info is stored.

correct time?

see here for troubleshooting

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005092

look at the log

2012-03-13T21:10:03Z ntpd[4813]: ntpd exiting on signal 1
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z root: ntpd Starting ntpd
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z ntpd[4830]: ntpd 4.2.6p2@1.2194-o Tue Mar 15 09:36:00 UTC 2011 (1)
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z ntpd[4834]: proto: precision = 0.584 usec
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z ntpd[4834]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0 UDP 123
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z ntpd[4834]: Listen normally on 1 lo0 127.0.0.1 UDP 123
2012-03-13T21:10:06Z ntpd[4834]: Listen normally on 2 vmk0 192.0.0.61 UDP 123


to me, i think its working fine ...

but why i am seeing that sign.. there is not any alarm or anything

if this is ESXi 5.0 phantom alarms, which is a bug.

if no alarms are present in the alarms, or Summary page.

e.g. if you enable ssh you get a warning!

to my knowlegde NTP does not give a warning or alert other than state stopped, started or appear in RED.

also HA failover, HA lack of datastores, gives a warning in Summary Page, but is not listed as an alarm.

Check Events, Tasks, Alarm, Summary page for host.

ok because ssh was enabled it was giving that warning

after turned off ssh, the sign gone off!!


i was watching tcmpdum output ..
its looks to me its working

red hearing.......!!!

its damn annoying that Warnings now trigger Yellow Triangles, and its not listed in Alarms!

because technically its not an alarm, so VMware state, its a Warning!

I have an article to surpress....l.

thanks you very much for your help so far .. and  helping me a lot to learn vmware ..