How to resolve NTP with high offset and jitter on a VMware virtual machine?

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Issue

  • Experiencing a high offset and jitter when syncing with the NTP server.

  • ntp fails on VMware machine with below error:

    ntpd[6396]: 0.0.0.0 0617 07 panic_stop -28748 s; set clock manually within 1000 s.
    

Environment

  • RHEL 6 and above

  • ntp

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