Set NTP on all VMs ESXi

More and more we see NTP of VMs is getting overlooked. Now we have COVID-19 Infra and System admins need to have a NTP strategy that is robust and does not impact production.

Here is a powercli method to set ntp on all VMs to get from ESXi hosts.

In this blog I advise the prerequisite step of how to set NTP on ESXi.

NTP check with Powercli

Save file as TimeSync.ps1Run from powercli. 
.\TimeSync.ps1

Step 1. 
Create the temp folder on your Windows machine and generate a CSV for the VMs in vCenter.   
Get-View -ViewType virtualmachine | Select name,@{N=’ToolsConfigInfo’;E={$_.Config.Tools.syncTimeWithHost } } | Export-Csv  “c:\temp\dr\TimeSyncStatus.csv” -NoTypeInformation
Step 2 
Create the powercli script. 

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Import-Csv c:\temp\TimeSyncStatus.csv | foreach {     $strNewVMName = $_.Name        #Update VMtools without reboot $vm = $strNewVMName$vmtest = Get-vm $vm | get-view$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec$vmConfigSpec.Tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo$vmConfigSpec.Tools.syncTimeWithHost = $true$vmtest.reconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)
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Step 3
Save file as TimeSync.ps1Run from powercli. 
.\TimeSync.ps1