Register Hypervisor ESXi and get the license key for ESXi Trial and Free
vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0 is valid for 60 days after installation, if you want to continue using the hypervisor without enterprise features after 60 days, may for further evaluation in the lab, you can register a free license key, add it in vSphere, under Manage – Licensing – Assign license.
A new license key for unlimited use can be registered on VMware Communities here. To do this, it is necessary to register new account with a valid email using the Register with Sign up now link.
Sign up now opens the registration form.
A new account was created here, due product registration was not possible with an existing account, if there is an previous account already exist that is in saved passwords, cookies and the browser cache may have to be delete, so you’r able to login with the new account.
After the registration form has been filled out and submitted by entering the captcha code, an e-mail will be sent, click the Activate Now button in the opened e-mail to confirm and complete the registration.
After clicking Activate Now, the page opens where you can now sign in to VMware with the new account.
Now go to Products and Accounts and Trial and Free Solutions.
just navigate to Downloads and Free Products Trials & Demos – vSphere
On the Prudukt selection, the product must be again registered.
By clicking on the Register button, the form with the user license agreement opens.
Filling in and signing in opens the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 Download Center page they include the license information.
The VMware vSphere Product Key now you can see in the License Information section on Component in the LICENSE KEY column. Use the Manual Download button to download the ESXi ISO image.
Linux System Time Synchronization with Network Time Protocol (NTP)
This post shows the synchronization of the system time with the atomic time of the NTP server in the Linux command line. Proper system time is essential for computer systems and creates the prerequisite for a smooth boost to the interacting services. The following command-line tools are used to check and adjust system time.
To querying the current system time with date and timedatectl:
$ date
Fri Feb 19 10:15:46 CET 2021
$ timedatectl
Local time: Fri 2021-02-19 10:15:46 GMT
Universal time: Fri 2021-02-19 09:15:46 UTC
RTC time: Fri 2021-02-19 09:15:44
Time zone: Europe/Zurich (CET, +0100)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: n
The time synchronization on a server is carried out by an NTP daemon to synchronize the system time and ensure that the systems function properly. Atomic time can be synchronized by NTP servers on the Internet, such as Google Public Network Time Protocol (NTP) time.google.com
NTP-Daemon deploying
Installing NTP daemon on Debian Linux-based systems:
$ sudo apt install ntp ntpdata -y
Install NTP daemon on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora systems:
$ sudo dnf install ntp ntpdate -y
NTP Pool Server pool.ntp.org tries to find the closest available server. The NTP pool project is a dynamic pool of time servers. The NTP pool servers can be edited in /etc/ntp.conf.
pool time.google.com
pool europe.pool.ntp.org
Before the ntpd service can be started, the system time must be set manually (in the range of a few minutes). This can be done with hit date or here run timedatectl set-time or via the NTP pool with ntpdate pool.ntp.org
ntpdate shows the current system time be synchronized with an NTP server. The deviations of the current system time from the times of the servers in the NTP pool can be queried with ntpq:
Now run the NTP daemon and link it in systemd for automatic start:
With a systemd-based system, run the following command to check the service status:
$ timedatectl status
Local time: Fr 2021-02-19 10:15:46 CET
Universal time: Fr 2021-02-19 09:15:46 UTC
RTC time: Fr 2021-02-19 09:15:44
Time zone: Europe/Zurich (CET, +0100)
System clock synchronized: no
NTP service: n/a
RTC in local TZ: no
The output on lines 7 and 8 means that the time synchronization is not carried out. To enable synchronization with the following command:
$ sudo timedatectl set-ntp true
Query the NTP service status again, after a few seconds the output shows System clock synchronized: yes and NTP service: active. The NTP service status should show something like this:
$ timedatectl status
Local time: Fr 2021-02-19 10:15:46 CET
Universal time: Fr 2021-02-19 09:15:46 UTC
RTC time: Fr 2021-02-19 09:15:44
Time zone: Europe/Zurich (CET, +0100)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
Kerberos authentication
Kerberos authentication is currently the standard authentication technology under Windows; Apple macOS, FreeBSD and Linux systems also use Kerberos implementations. When authenticating in an environment using Kerberos, a synchronous system time is of fundamental importance for interacting systems.
Since Kerberos requires three entities for authentication, it works as a ticket authorization by a third party, if the system time exceed a certain drift limit, a token created by Kerberos expires after a certain time and the ticket becomes invalid.
Kerberos has also become the standard for websites and SSO implementations across platforms. In Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), when integrating NAS and other devices for access to network resources, it is necessary to ensure a consistent system time. For logging like syslog, the precise timestamp for the evaluation of the events and for the error analysis are important.
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