To be totally fair if you are to the point of considering putting your NTP server in a VM it may be worth seeing if you even actually need one. If its going to run well in a VM the public stratum servers are going to work for what you need, if its not you're just going to be buying hardware in 6 months - a year when your entire infra is falling down around your ears due to time sync issues. -- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, at 09:18 AM, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I’m seeing all sort of documentation about how it’s not a great idea > to use a VM as an NTP server due to how sketchy time tracking is > within a VM. > > My supervisor directed me to try it anyway. He feels that our > existing NTP servers are too old and need to be replaced, and he wants > to replace them with VMs rather than physical servers. > > I’m not seeing any difference in behavior between the two > existing physical NTP servers and the VM that I set up to test as > an NTP server. > > Thoughts? > > == > Jeremy Charles > Epic’s Computer and Technology Services Division > jchar...@epic.com > 608-271-9000 > > _________________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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