[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

[Brian MacLeod]

Here at Tech, our ESX hosted machines have the ntpd service installed,
configured and enabled.

bnm

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm running VMware Server 2.0 on Centos 5.2 and I have 5.2 guests.  The
> clock drift on the guests is horrible.  I've written a script that
> updates the clock
>
> 28 May 10:34:51 ntpdate[4522]: step time server 198.137.202.16 offset
> 558.557700 sec
> 28 May 11:43:41 ntpdate[12168]: step time server 216.14.97.75 offset
> 525.761734 sec
> 28 May 12:49:42 ntpdate[19722]: step time server 69.31.13.210 offset
> 357.566419 sec
> 28 May 13:54:41 ntpdate[27432]: step time server 209.104.4.231 offset
> 298.270392 sec
> 28 May 15:01:02 ntpdate[2459]: step time server 66.79.148.39 offset
> 378.376557 sec
> 28 May 16:08:38 ntpdate[10010]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
> 454.967227 sec
>
>
> It runs every hour but look at that drift.  Is there anything I can do
> to remedy this?
>
> Chris
>
>
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