http://www.vReference.com/2009/09/22/vmware-retiring-vmi/ guides, links and news to VMware and virtualization technologies Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:04:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.vReference.com/2009/09/22/vmware-retiring-vmi/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Forbes Guthrie Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:32:28 +0000 http://www.vReference.com/?p=380#comment-146 Hi Nate, What is the guest OS you are using for your NTP servers? Do you have VMware tools installed in the guest? I just wonder what sort of problems you are experiencing, just that they lose a little bit of time or does it vary wildly? Does the ESX host keep its time properly? Is the host synced to another NTP source? Anyway, if you want an internal based NTP source, but don't want to use a physical server, why not use one of your core switches or something like your firewall. That's a pretty common way to have a centralized time source for all your servers. Hi Nate,
What is the guest OS you are using for your NTP servers? Do you have VMware tools installed in the guest?
I just wonder what sort of problems you are experiencing, just that they lose a little bit of time or does it vary wildly? Does the ESX host keep its time properly? Is the host synced to another NTP source?
Anyway, if you want an internal based NTP source, but don’t want to use a physical server, why not use one of your core switches or something like your firewall. That’s a pretty common way to have a centralized time source for all your servers.

]]> http://www.vReference.com/2009/09/22/vmware-retiring-vmi/comment-page-1/#comment-145 nate Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:35:57 +0000 http://www.vReference.com/?p=380#comment-145 I use VMI guests only for NTP servers, no matter what I cannot get NTP to sync up in a fully virtualized guest. Though in a VMI guest it works fine. Wonder what the solution to running an NTP server will be if VMI goes away. Not interested in running a physical box to sync my VM hosts to that just has NTP, and not interested in having them sync directly to the internet(in many cases the hosts don't have internet access). I use VMI guests only for NTP servers, no matter what I cannot get NTP to sync up in a fully virtualized guest. Though in a VMI guest it works fine. Wonder what the solution to running an NTP server will be if VMI goes away. Not interested in running a physical box to sync my VM hosts to that just has NTP, and not interested in having them sync directly to the internet(in many cases the hosts don’t have internet access).

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