[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu May 28 18:01:35 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:15 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> Here at Tech, our ESX hosted machines have the ntpd service installed,
> configured and enabled.
> 

I have ntpd running on each guest and even the host.  It is syncing from
us.pool.ntp.org.  Still I need a script to run ntpdate every 5 minutes.

At least every 5 minutes get me down to less than 60s drift

28 May 17:34:26 ntpdate[20089]: step time server 69.10.36.5 offset
11.454649 sec
28 May 17:40:18 ntpdate[20700]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
50.063835 sec
28 May 17:45:45 ntpdate[21412]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
25.272149 sec
28 May 17:51:38 ntpdate[22254]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
51.138394 sec
28 May 17:57:03 ntpdate[22990]: step time server 72.52.190.26 offset
24.190733 sec




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