Stan, On 1/20/11 7:45 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > What you're supposed to do, and what VMWare recommends, is to run ntpd _only > in > the ESX host_ and _not_ in each guest. According to: > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displ > ayKC&externalId=1006427
Did you read the document you linked? As was mentioned on this list fairly recently, that's not been the recommendation for quite some time. To the contrary: === NTP Recommendations Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. (...) When using NTP in the guest, disable VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. === We run the guests with divider=10, periodic timesync disabled, and NTP on both the host and the guest. We have not had any time problems in several years of operation. -Brad
