Information
ESXi host must have time synchronization services enabled and running. Cryptography, audit logging, cluster operations, and incident response/forensics heavily rely on synchronized time. To ensure this, NTP and/or PTP services must be set to start with the host and must be running.
Solution
Get-VMHostService -VMHost $ESXi -ErrorAction:Stop | Where-Object{$_.Key -eq "ntpd"} | Set-VMHostService -policy "on" -Confirm:$false
Get-VMHostService -VMHost $ESXi -ErrorAction:Stop | Where-Object{$_.Key -eq "ntpd"} | Restart-VMHostService -Confirm:$false