Hi, Mike, ... Two things seem to have gotten run together in my post. I meant to say that running the NTP server on all guests is better in terms of impact to the VM host than running a poorly scheduled MULTIPLICITY of 'ntpdate' jobs nightly.
At my shop, we introduced an arbitrary staggering of the guests. We have abandonned that. We again run the standard XNTPD on each guest. Once the Linux adjustment is established, the System z clock is so rock solid that the offset does not have to be revisitted often. Even if there is substantial drift, the NTP daemon appears to be much better behaved than other services. > So did you find that this model didn't work? It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that we found the cost of changing from the Linux norm to be greater than the advantage. -- R; <><
