Hi,
New to this, so I apologise if posting in the wrong area.
*I have just setup the NTP client on 3 ESX 3.0 servers following this KB. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1339 I had to do a service mgmt-vmware restart to get the changes to show up in the MUI of each ESX server, but it all looks ok. I then followed this article to set my VM's to get their time from the ESX host via the tools. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1318 To check my config, I moved a test servers time on by 10 minutes and restarted, but the time still stayed 10 mins out of sync. I ran *watch "ntpq -p" on each ESX host, the results of one are below.
Every 2s: ntpq -p Thu Aug 28 15:06:57 2008
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter*
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*LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 12 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.031
dns1.rmplc.co.u 0.0.0.0 16 u - 512 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00*
ntp.t.niet.net 0.0.0.0 16 u - 512 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00*
arethusa.tweake 0.0.0.0 16 u - 512 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00*
Shouldn't I be seeing the external time sources being polled and why didn't my VM's time update when I have it set to get it's time through the tools??
*My firewall is set to allow NTP port 123 outbound and I have also set the following on each ESX host *esxcfg-firewall --openport 123,udp,out,NTP_OUT just in case, but still no joy.
New to the Linux stuff, so not sure if this is right, wrong, working or otherwise, so please bear withh me on this one!
Any help very much appreciated.
Nick.