Chapter 10. Use NTP


We further recommend installing NTP on your Ceph nodes—​especially Ceph monitor nodes. Without clock synchronization, clock drift may prevent monitors from agreeing on the state of the cluster, which means that clients lose access to data until the quorum is re-established and the monitors agree on the state of the cluster.

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