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. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
