PTP on VMware ESXi

Enhanced PTP User Guide (UG1602)

Document ID
UG1602
Release Date
2023-04-07
Revision
1.1 English

This chapter identifies the requirements and configuration procedures for running PTP on one or more Virtual Machines (VM) hosted on VMware ESXi.

sfptpd will synchronize the network adapter clock and system clocks from multiple VMs to an upstream PTP master clock.

Note: X3 series adapters do not support VMware ESXi. If you are using them, ignore this chapter.