> On Apr 4, 2016, at 13:57, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:18:35PM +0000, 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? > > You will likely run into problems. > > Note that NTP is an extremely easy task in most situations, and > dedicating two 1U boxes for general infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, > NTP, possibly TFTP for PXE) should be an easy sell in most > companies.
I’ve found most companies don’t understand NTP. Case in point, I worked for a company who not only was okay with VMs as NTP servers, but insisted that they not be hosted in our e-comm datacenters, but only all the way back at corporate. _______________________________________________ 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/
