[cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware

[Mark Holloway]

I am using VMWare Workstation 6.5.  What is everyone else using?

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Walenta [mailto:pwalenta at wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:03 AM
To: 'Paul'; gwenzit at yahoo.com; 'Mark Holloway'; 'John Parduhn'
Cc: 'Matthew Melbourne'; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware

I've resolved my issues by tuning my VMWare instances under Linux.  To date
I've had no issues.

The big things to make sure you set are your CPU speed (as in turn CPU
throttling off), and set the true CPU speed in the .cnf (.cfg?) file.
Reboot your Linux host system and all should be well (I've even run Unity
Connection under Linux and it works quite well). 

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:52 AM
To: gwenzit at yahoo.com; Mark Holloway; John Parduhn
Cc: Matthew Melbourne; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware


There is a known issue with VMware Linux guests trying to use NTP. The time
goes wild and is unreliable. The best way to make NTP work is to let all
time sync go through the host as Wes has already pointed out.



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From: Gregory Wenzel <gwenzit at yahoo.com>
To: Mark Holloway <mh at markholloway.com>; John Parduhn <parduhn at gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Melbourne <matt at melbourne.org.uk>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:44:05 AM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware


I have 7.0.1 running in vmware. My pub points to my external 2811 which
points to time.windows.com and it works fine. Are you just running vmware
with no external gateway for ntp source. 


GregW
CCVP
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--- On Tue, 4/28/09, John Parduhn <parduhn at gmail.com> wrote:


From: John Parduhn <parduhn at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware
To: "Mark Holloway" <mh at markholloway.com>
Cc: "Matthew Melbourne" <matt at melbourne.org.uk>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:52 PM


I'm having the same problem in 7.0(2a), and like Matthew, didn't have issues
using 6.1(2) in VMWare.  I disabled NTP, but now my 7941 will not keep in
sync with CallManager; IP Communicator works fine.

John


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 16:55, Mark Holloway <mh at markholloway.com> wrote:

I have an ISR configured as an NTP master on the same subnet as my VMWare
host and guests.  NTP appears to be working fine.


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Wes Sisk
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:49 PM
To: Matthew Melbourne
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] NTP Sync in CUCM 7.x under VMware

VMWare recommends not using NTP on guests.  Synch the host and let the
guests follow the host.

/Wes

On Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:31:45 PM, Matthew Melbourne
<matt at melbourne.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed CUCM 7.0(2a) under VMware, but I am unable to get it 
> synchronise to an external NTP server. I've tried several external NTP 
> servers, but using the platform "utils ntp status" CLI command shows 
> that
it
> is configured (and reachable) but will not sync with the external time 
> source. The Publisher appears to synchronise momentarily but quickly 
> loses sync and starts following its own clock. Also, I notice that the 
> appliance hardware clock is losing time, as compared to the VM Host OS 
> time. I'm
sure
> certain I didn't have this problem with a CUCM 6.1(3) VM.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
>

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