How to Set NTP / Time Server on VMware Live Cyber recovery connector VM

Products

• VMware Cloud on AWS
• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Setting NTP server on newly Deployed VLCR Connector VM

Time Skew difference between ESXi hosts/vCenter servers and connector VM can cause delay in sync operations or they may appear to run very slowly

Environment

VMware Live Cyber Recovery 

Resolution

Use the following command to show the current configured Time Server.  Note you will need to run 'entersupportmode' to enable this command

config time-server show

Example :

connector>> entersupportmode
connector>> config time-server show
Current time: time in UTC
----- Time servers -----
Primary Secondary
------------- ----------
pool.example.org --
------------- ----------
 

Use the following command to set the Time Server

config time-server set --primary-time-server <ntp server>

Example :

connector>> config time-server set --primary-time-server pool.example.org
Time server configuration updated.

 

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