As you might know, keeping our ESXi hosts’ date and time accurate is very critical. To prevent having an inaccurate time configuration we can use the NTP server in our environment.
A few days ago, I faced a question about NTP configuration in the vSphere environment and how to set NTP configuration on many ESXi hosts. Hence, I decided to use the PowerCLI commands to configure NTP configuration most easily with an example.
Kindly find the commands have been used in my example:
Connect-VIServer vCenter_Server_Address
Get-VMHost | Add-VMHostNtpServer ntp.virtual-mir.com
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where {$_.Name -eq “NTP client”} | Set-VMHostFirewallException -Enabled:$true
Get-VMHost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd”} | Start-VMHostService
Get-VMhost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd”} | Set-VMHostService -policy “automatic”
I’m sure if you are a GUI person, switching to PowerCLI might be a hard transition but once you used to script, you will never go back to GUI, and learning new things is always fun, so let’s try out.
