When you run the NetWare server as a virtualized guest under VMware, time speeds up or slows down. In addition to this, several guests are running on a single VMware host and all guests are started simultaneously. In this scenario, if time does not successfully synchronize when the virtual guest server was booted, it will never successfully synchronize.
The workaround for this issue is to set up the NetWare server to use the xntpd instead of timesync for native (physical) hardware.
Watch the host server's utilisation and start each guest once the host's utilization is low/idling.
Wait until the guest's time has synchronized and host server's utilization has dropped before you start the next guest.
Do not start all guests simultaneously.
For more information on using xntpd, see the following: