I don't know why (but I suppose is related to storage speed) the virtual machines tend to present a skew in the clock from some days to a century forward (2177) I see in the journal of the engine: Mar 28 13:19:40 ovirt-engine.ovirt NetworkManager[1158]: <info> [1680009580.2045] dhcp4 (eth0): state changed new lease, address=192.168.123.20 Mar 28 13:24:40 ovirt-engine.ovirt NetworkManager[1158]: <info> [1680009880.2042] dhcp4 (eth0): state changed new lease, address=192.168.123.20 Mar 28 13:29:40 ovirt-engine.ovirt NetworkManager[1158]: <info> [1680010180.2039] dhcp4 (eth0): state changed new lease, address=192.168.123.20 Apr 01 08:15:42 ovirt-engine.ovirt chronyd[1072]: Forward time jump detected! Apr 01 08:15:42 ovirt-engine.ovirt NetworkManager[1158]: <info> [1680336942.4396] dhcp4 (eth0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds) Apr 01 08:15:42 ovirt-engine.ovirt chronyd[1072]: Can't synchronise: no selectable sources When this happens in the hosted-engine tipically: 1. the DWH became unconsistent as I stated here: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/KPW5FFKG3AI6EIN... or https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/WUNZUSZ2ARRLGN5... 2. the skew causes the engine to kick off the nodes that appears "down" in "connecting" state This compromises all the task in pending state and raise countermeasures to the ovirt-engine manager and also vdsm daemon. I currently tried to put in engine's crontab every 5 minutes a "hwclock --hctosys" as it seem the hwclock don't skew