OK, cool. Should I assume your DC's aren't VM's?
-sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My! > > We have our guests go to the DCs. We sync our vmhosts to our DCs. > Our DCs sync to our routers and the routers sync to the external sources. > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Steven M. Caesare > <[email protected]> wrote: > > That seems about what I recall too... thanks. > > > > > > > > -sc > > > > > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:29 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My! > > > > > > > > No, I let the PDCe go to the same time source as the ESX boxes. I got > > warned against using the VMWare Tools synchronisation for the guests, > > by people on the list I think. Can't remember the reason though - > > maybe something to do with hardware interrupts tickles the memory, for > some reason? > > > > On 25 March 2010 14:53, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > And do you sync the DC to it's host VM via VMWare tools? > > > > > > > > -sc > > > > > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:48 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]> > 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." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
