Hi - I've tried everything I can think of to keep time on my netware servers sync'ed. What does vmware recommend? I have Vmware server 1.0.1 build 29996, running on host o/s of Windows2003 sp1 fully patched. Running four Netware 6.5 servers on the same server, vmware tools is installed and running. I don't want the servers to connect directly to the internet, so they're running on a private network. The most intuitive setup seems to be this:
server 1: single-reference, with synctime set to ON in vmwtool (so that the time on the guest o/s is sync'ed with time on the host)
servers 2 through 4: secondary, with time source set to server1, with synctime set to OFF in vmwtool
Using this configuration the servers can poll the single-reference server, but dsrepair shows the servers out of sync. If I reload timesync on servers 2 through 4, time is in sync on all servers for a few seconds, then they lose sync again.
The applicable lines of my vmx files for servers 2 through 4 are:
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
tools.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Mike