Feb 25 2010
How to setup Time Synchronization in Windows 2003/2008 AD domain on VMware Guest
On Primary domain controller (PDC Emulator) disable VMware Tools Time Sync and use only Windows Time server. Setting up Time sync design is the important part, the first issue to address is finding someone to synchronize with. Each Windows machine needs to sync with another machine to get its time. To do this efficiently and [...]
Feb 8 2010
ntpd: Synchronizing with time server Failed error on VMware ESX 3.5
Login as root using ssh onto your VMware server and search for UDP port 123 to see if this port for ntp client is listed on VMware ESX server firewall: # esxcfg-firewall -q |grep -i “123″ If you see no results then you don’t have ntp port enabled on your VMware ESX port.
