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AltostratusNTP Viprion (VCMP)
Hello,
We have a Viprion with several guests running on it. I wonder is it really necessary to define NTP servers on the guests or is it syncing from the clock of the VCMP host
Without NTP servers defined on the guests I have this.
# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 23 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001
slot1 .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot2 .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot3 .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot4 .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
With NTP servers defined on the guests I have this.
# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*10.x.xx.x 1xx.yyy.eee.ee0 3 u 331 1024 377 0.796 1.061 1.387
+10.x.xx.y 1xx.yyy.eee.ee1 3 u 745 1024 377 3.907 2.364 2.330
+10.x.xx.z 1xx.yyy.eee.ee0 3 u 567 1024 377 1.082 0.773 1.643
slot1 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot2 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot3 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
slot4 .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
Anyone a hint ?
Thx in advance.
Luc
1 Reply
Rodrigo_AlbuqueCirrocumulus
Hello Luc
Yes, it is necessary to define NTP servers on the guest. The guests are supposed to be pretty much 'independent' boxes like when you create a new VM on VMware for example.
If you need NTP on the guests, forget about the host and set them there.
Thanks,
Rodrigo
