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Best Practices for VMware Timekeeping by Chakradhar Kaveri is a document available to read on EtoBox.

What is Best Practices for VMware Timekeeping about?

The document discusses timekeeping best practices in VMware ESX. It explains that the ESX kernel does not keep time itself, but rather tracks time since startup. The console operating system acts as the timekeeper. The real time clock can drift and is only updated on graceful shutdown. Network Time Protocol and VMware Tools are used to sync guest virtual machine times to the console operating system time. The document recommends using NTP in both the console operating system and virtual machines for accurat

Author

Chakradhar Kaveri

Language

EN