My blog post links to the vmware best practice papers. Regards,
Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My! Right, using the NIST serves. So you are suggesting syncing the PDCE and ESX boxes to an NTP server, but don't tie them together via the VMWare tools? -sc From: Michael Tellson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My! Also ensure your PDCE domain controller and your ESX hosts use the same time source to sync to. And never user time.windows.com (the default). From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My! I let the ESX boxes use direct NTP and the boss DC also. Don't know whether it is "right" but i never have any time issues. On 25 March 2010 14:39, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: OK, there was some discussion about this a while back I believe. Time services... you can set your guest servers, your guest DC's or your VM hosts to all sync with NTP. Additionally, you can (under ESXi), sync the guest machines with the ESXi host they live on. IIRC , I believe the best practice is to allow all guest servers to sync with DC (also a guest). What I can't find anything definitive on is if the head-honcho DC should directly sync with an NTP server, or should it have its clock corrected by the VMWare tools on that ESXi host, and let the ESXi server sync with an NTP source instead? -sc -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
