Configuring NTP
Time synchronization in your network should always be configured, but sometimes users underestimate its relevance because they believe that having the network time-synced is not so important. Wrong it’s extremely important.
If the ESXi hosts are not in sync, you can face some communication issues between vSphere components that can cause service outage. If you use AD in your network, for example, Domain Controllers (DCs) and clients must be time-synced to avoid authentication problems. If the time between DCs and clients differs by more than 5 minutes, Kerberos tickets will fail and you will not be able to log in. By default, machines joined to a domain will contact the DC that holds the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) emulator ...
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