* Description of problem (please be detailed as possible and provide log snippests): Documentation should emphasize the importance of time synchronization for OCS, as Ceph heavily depends on that. This is especially important for customers going to use OCS in a restricted/disconnected network environment. This happened to my customer: - successfully installed OCP 4.3 on VMWare UPI in a restricted network - after some some time (hours, days) they have deployed OCS 4.2.2 on OCP, time drift has happened on their VMs - we've noticed that OCS stays in "degraded" state with CEPH status reporting "HEALTH_WARN, clock skew detected on mon.x" - we've found Red Hat solution [ A newly deployed OCS 4 cluster status shows as "Degraded", Why? ] [1] - with the information in [2], they were able to configure time-synchronization without full internet connectivity - OCS 4.2.2 started to work [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4828941 [2] https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/installing/install_config/installing-customizing.html#installation-special-config-crony_installing-customizing * Is there any workaround available to the best of your knowledge? Yes, KCS https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4828941 There are already many support cases linked to this one, so it will be very useful for our customers to have a better documentation here. * Proposed documentation enhancement: - Point to the importance of time synchronization in part [4] and/or [5] in the OCS 4.2 documentation - Outline the need for configuring chrony to use an internal time source [2] when installing in a restricted network environment [4] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.2/html-single/planning_your_deployment/index [5] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.2/html-single/deploying_openshift_container_storage/index
Need Add Note [1] to this doc: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.2/html-single/deploying_openshift_container_storage/index Note [1]: NOTE When you install OpenShift Container Storage in a restricted network environment, you need to apply a custom Network Time Protocol (NTP) configuration to the nodes, because by default, internet connectivity is assumed in OpenShift Container Platform and chronyd is configured to use *.rhel.pool.ntp.org servers. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4828941 and Configuring chrony time service for more details. *Attached picture
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