VMware ESXi – Fix Wrong Time After vMotion

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After vMotion some guests went 2 hours ahead in time.

2 hours ahead of UTC is exactly our timezone.

Why would it do that? AFAICS both source and destination hosts have the same configuration.

But apparently not. What could be wrong?

Best Answer

Check your hosts' hardware clocks in the BIOS...

This is a common issue, so I set the hardware clock to UTC on my systems or have the OS update the hardware clock once synced with NTP in the build process.