[ntp:questions] [help]how to configure ntp in a private network and without extra refer clock source?
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Mon Jul 14 08:31:28 UTC 2014
On 14/07/14 06:51, john.wang.wjq at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to do the same thing in an isolated network, except that
> me
have around 60 kvm nodes running on 20 physical Linux boxes. Out of them
I'm trying to use 3 or 4 boxes as my NTP servers to form a HA time service.
>
You are trying to do two undesirable things at once: run a a time
island; and directly update the clocks on VM guests. I don't think this
should be attempted without individual consultancy from someone with
detailed knowledge of the VM system in use.
Generally, the recommended way of handling time islands these days is to
use a core network which peer each other and which use orphan mode to
allow isolated operation. These should be chosen to have good and
accurate clocks against UTC when free running.
The general approach for VMs is to synchronise the hosts and then use
whatever mechanism the VM environment provides to synchronised the
guests, possibly with the occasional resynch. You should advice from
the VM environment provider as to how best to do this on their systems.
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