Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
It's clear that the industry best practice is to use a real time source, but there is a flip side: If you deviate from the industry best practice, how much do you risk? When instructed to deviate from best practice, should you be upset and insist that your boss put the request in writing, creati

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread Brock, Anthony
> It's clear that the industry best practice is to use a real time source, but > there is a flip side: If you deviate from the industry best practice, how > much do you risk? When instructed to deviate from best practice, should you > be upset and insist that your boss put the request in writing

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread Craig Cook
Weather or not you end up running NTP using a VM is up to your site. I would want to know if your monitoring system detects when your NTP time drifts though. If your time does drift, monitoring alerts happen, you investigate. If it turns out to be a VM drift issue you then have evidence for yo

Re: [lopsa-tech] [EXT] Re: kickstart'ing CentOS 6.6 - SOLVED

2016-04-05 Thread bbenedetto
bbenedetto> I can kickstart RHEL 7.2 with no problems. bbenedetto> And I can kickstart CentOS 7.2 also with no problems. bbenedetto> bbenedetto> But every time I try to kickstart CentOS 6.6, it instead bbenedetto> prompts me to "Choose a Language" and I end up doing a bbenedetto> manual install. D

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread cpolish
TL;DR: Here be nitpicks maquerading as answers, humor in wisdom's drag. On 2016-04-05 12:47, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > It's clear that the industry best practice is to use a real > time source, but there is a flip side: If you deviate from the > industry best practice, how much d

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-05 Thread Steven Miano
No one wants to pay for insurance. Running a dozen Chrony or NTP servers in VMware for a month does not equate to: "Hey look, if I don't pay for auto insurance for 30 days, everything is fine; let's cancel all of our policies on the fleet of trucks". If you only have to worry about Kerberos in yo