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Use an External Time Source. (e.g. internet, gps clock)<br />
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Point the DCs to the same External Time Source.<br />
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Disable VMs updating time form Hosts.<br />
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Members of the domain will get time from DC.
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Use an External Time Source. (e.g. internet, gps clock)

Point the DCs to the same External Time Source.

Disable VMs updating time form Hosts.

Members of the domain will get time from DC.

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So on my hosts I should configure with an external time source?
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So on my hosts I should configure with an external time source?

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With these? but if the hosts are in different time zones how does that work?<br />
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server 0.pool.ntp.org<br />
server 1.pool.ntp.org<br />
server 2.pool.ntp.org<br />
server 3.pool.ntp.org
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With these? but if the hosts are in different time zones how does that work?

server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org
server 3.pool.ntp.org

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All Your hosts, will be in GMT.
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Hence you should never tick the box to syn VM time with host, correct?
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Hence you should never tick the box to syn VM time with host, correct?

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Well if you did, the Time Zone setting on the VM would take effect!<br />
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But it's recommended to sync your Windows VMs with the Domain.
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Well if you did, the Time Zone setting on the VM would take effect!

But it's recommended to sync your Windows VMs with the Domain.

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Ive added 0.pool.ntp.org to the NTP configuration and restarted the service on the host. Still doesn't sync correct time?
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Ive added 0.pool.ntp.org to the NTP configuration and restarted the service on the host. Still doesn't sync correct time?

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access to 0.pool.ntp.org is not blocked ?<br />
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what time is it a showing?
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access to 0.pool.ntp.org is not blocked ?

what time is it a showing?

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Thats quite a big job to fix a small issue.
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Thats quite a big job to fix a small issue.

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It may also fix the SSL security issue.
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Bug fix update fixed issue.
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HI all,<br />
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Had a call open with VMware for sometime now as all my VM's (apart from one cluster) fail when I try and snapshot using vmtools option on ifirst execution, but works if I try again. &nbsp;Im told that its because the hosts havent been configured with a NTP server. But Im not sure how these should be configured. I have 2 clusters in the UK and 3 in Europe. Should I configure them with the NTP service, if so do i configure to the local DC's or just one DC?
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HI all,

Had a call open with VMware for sometime now as all my VM's (apart from one cluster) fail when I try and snapshot using vmtools option on ifirst execution, but works if I try again.  Im told that its because the hosts havent been configured with a NTP server. But Im not sure how these should be configured. I have 2 clusters in the UK and 3 in Europe. Should I configure them with the NTP service, if so do i configure to the local DC's or just one DC?

NTP settings on host - quiesing issues

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