Managing time synchronization for virtual domain controllers

Virtual domain controllers consist of Windows Server installations running as virtual machines on hypervisor platforms. The following two hypervisor platforms dominate the server virtualization scene today:

• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft Hyper-V

Getting ready

This recipe describes two methods to manage time synchronization for virtual domain controllers:

• For virtual domain controllers running on Hyper-V, make the hardware clock of the virtualization host work together with the clock of the virtual domain controller.
• For virtual domain controllers running on vSphere, make the clock of the virtual domain controller work independently from the hardware clock of the virtualization host.

How to do it...

Choose between the two methods:

• Managing time synchronization for virtual domain controllers running on VMware vSphere
• Managing time synchronization for virtual domain controllers...