Problem: ESXi 5.5 NTP client is not getting NTP time from a Windows Server 2008 R2 that is set up as a NTP server via registry configuration. The NTP server configuration goes something like this here .
Firstly, here is the ntp.conf:
Same problem if I use version 2 or if I specify no version at all.
Now I restart the ntpd service and check the log:
Then I check the ntp synch and the system time.
Obviously, the offset is huge and it is not getting better.
When I try synching time with Windows clients using w32tm /resync /force with the same NTP server as configured above, all works fine. I have tested by changing the time on the server, then synching the clients to the server. But this fails for the NTP client on the ESXi.