On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:14:04PM +0000, Musayev, Ilya wrote: > John, > > For vmware, you have 2 options, clock sync will work with native NTP daemon > using local ntp servers in your datacenter or use vmware tools native time > keeping technique. > > We have over 2500 VMs, and while we have vmware tools installed on all vms, > we choose to use native linux NTPD for time sync VS vmware hypervisor > provided time sync. In past, vmware tools time sync was buggy and not > recommended, so we decided to keep it simple and make use of existing ntp > servers. As of now, inherent issues maybe, if you go through major upgrade of > Vsphere, if you change vmware hardware version, if you don't update the tools > - you have 3 places where time keeping may break (though I hope vmware dev > team consider all that - it is still a possibility)
+1 to this... we do the same thing. NTP is much more maintainable, and we don't trust the tools-based sync (due to bugs we encountered).
