VxRail: How to Update the time zone of the VxRail Manager After Build

Summary: This article describes how to update the VxRail Manager's time zone using CLI after the VxRail has been deployed. This article does NOT cover how to update the Network Time Protocol (NTP) settings of the VxRail Manager. See the Solve procedure for changing the NTP settings/IP of the VxRail Manager if the NTP settings must be updated. ...

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Instructions

NOTE: You can view the current time zone of the VxRail by running the date command using CLI to the VxRail Manager.
Screenshot showing the date output on CLI 

 

NOTE: You can temporarily modify the time zone output with the export TZ=<Time Zone> command. However, this change will only remain until the current user is logged into the CLI. Follow the steps of this KB to permanently modify the time zone.


Screenshot showing the export date command 


How to Permanently Update the time zone of the VxRail Manager Virtual Machine (VM):

  1. Take a snapshot of the VxRail Manager VM.
  2. The time zone setting resides in the /etc/localtime file. As seen in the below screenshot, this file points at a time zone in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
    Screenshot showing the time zone file 

    3. To update the time zone, remove the existing localtime file and create a new file that points at the correct time zone, using the following command as a reference. *The following command updates the time zone to MDT.
    # rm /etc/localtime; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver /etc/localtime
    Screenshot showing the removal and recreation of the timezone file 

    4. You can confirm the time zone setting by running the command: date
    Screenshot of the date command after changing the time zone 

    5. Restart the vmware-marvin service to ensure that it uses the correct time zone settings. Run the following command:

 

systemctl restart vmware-marvin


 

Affected Products

VxRail, VxRail Appliance Series, VxRail Software
Article Properties
Article Number: 000009890
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2025
Version:  5
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