On RHEL7, should I run chrony/ntpd or rely on the vmware-tools.service for syncing the time?

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Issue

  • On RHEL7, should I run chrony/ntpd or rely on the vmware-tools.service for syncing the time? I see both could do this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • NTP
  • chrony

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