ESXi & NTP

[klou]

1) Can ESXi 4.0 work as NTP-server?

2) Is it bad idea to create virtual NTP-server? Why?

[Sreejesh_D]

> 1) Can ESXi 4.0 work as NTP-server?

ESX can act as NTP server, but not sure about ESXi. Here're the steps for configuring NTP server in ESX. You can give a try on ESXi with the mentioned steps in KB.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002864

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[Borja_Mari]

Hi,

AFAIK the esxi server can't be a NTP server. But the esx server can be.

IMHO it isn't a good practice to configure a vm as ntp server. It's known the vm's can easily have time drift issues.

Regards/Saludos,

Pablo

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[klou]

Solution

Run time correction software in the guest operating system. Options include NTP, w32time, or VMware Tools periodic time synchronization.

I guess we'll make some tests.

p.s. Local NTP-server will be updated from other NTP-servers in Internet.

[dawoo]

Hi.

Just as a note the URL returns a 404 due to the '*' before and after the KB number.

Regards,

Darren.