Users Guide

Figure 31. ESXi web interface—Edit time configuration page
11. In the Manage pane, select the Services tab.
The resulting page is as shown in the following figure:
Figure 32. ESXi settings web interface—Manage pane
12. Right-click on the ntpd service and set the policy to Start and stop with the host.
Next steps
Once the policy is set, start the ntpd service. If the ntpd service is already running, restart the service.
Repeat all the steps for each host targeted for Cloud Foundation management domain deployment. Validate that each ESXi host can
access the NTP servers by establishing an SSH connection to each host and executing the ntpq -p command. A refid value of .INIT.
indicates that your host is not obtaining time from your specified time source.
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