Are your NTP servers just pulling from upstream time servers and serving to your fleet? If so, and given that you're only running 2 physical servers (should be 3, 5 or 7 depending on the writeup you read...), that will be fine as long as you do follow your hypervisor's best practices for NTP serving.
m. > On Apr 4, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Jeremy Charles <jchar...@epic.com> 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 <mailto:jchar...@epic.com> > 608-271-9000 > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org <mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > <https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ <http://lopsa.org/>
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