Stan,

On 1/20/11 7:45 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:

What you're supposed to do, and what VMWare recommends, is to run ntpd _only in the ESX host_ and _not_ in each guest. According to: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displ ayKC&externalId=1006427

Did you read the document you linked? As was mentioned on this list fairly recently, that's not been the recommendation for quite some time. To the contrary:

=== NTP Recommendations Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. (...) When using NTP in the guest, disable VMware Tools periodic time synchronization.

We run the guests with divider=10, periodic timesync disabled, and NTP on both the host and the guest. We have not had any time problems in several years of operation.

-Brad