On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:08 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > ankush grover wrote: > >> Earlier this server was syncing time through ntp daemon and below is >> the ntp.conf file. Now I have set a cronjob which sync the time with > > Best not to run NTP inside a ESX VM. I've never gotten NTP to sync > inside of VMware outside of a kernel with VMI enabled (no versions > of RHEL support VMI at this time as far as I know). As quoted by Brian earlier in this thread, the VMware knowledge base offers their "best practices for Linux guests" in : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 for VMware products including ESX and ESXi. According to their current recommendations, " In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization." The above KB articles gets updated from time to time, so it is a good idea to check it back occasionally. Akemi