Time Synchronization on XenServer Hosts and VMs
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With Hyper-V, I can join the hypervisor to a domain and have its time sync from the domain controller.
And for the Windows VMs that are joined to a domain they also be using the domain controller to time sync. Hyper-V also makes it easy to disable time synchronization per VMs so I can use the domain controller or an external ntp server.
I'm curious about how XenServer admins manage time synchronization for their hosts and VMs?
Disabling Virtual Machine Guest-to-Host Time Synchronization
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NTP from the hypervisor, normally.
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I have my XS hosts sync with our watchguard, as it has an ntp server. The watchguard syncs with pool.ntp.org servers. The DC here sync with pool.ntp.org servers, and clients and servers sync with the DC
