Hey Klaus,

We use solaris as host AND guest ;)

solaris is slightly different to normal VM systems in that you can't really load up "any OS" into the guest. There are branded zones that support a few flavours of linux (ala redhat, etc). However, in our experience the Solaris OS is really solid for all we need.

you can read up alot here - http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/solaris11/overview/index.html

Also there is some really nice network virtualisation you can do too.

Cheers
Jason



On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at> wrote:
Jason, are you using Solaris only as host or also as guest OS?

regards
Klaus


On 28.08.2012 10:33, Jason Penton wrote:
Hey Daniel,

We use Solaris virtualisation and it works great. The zones (VMs per se)
are lightweight, easy to administer and rock solid.

btw, common misconceptions are that you need sun (oracle) hardware and
that the os is not free. These are both false.

cheers
Jason

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Carsten Bock <carsten@ng-voice.com
<mailto:carsten@ng-voice.com>> wrote:

    Hi Daniel,

    here's from my personal experience:
    Our setup at ng-voice is a little weird sometimes: We've rented some
    virtual servers at a german provider (who uses Xen). On these virtual
    servers we've installed OpenVz, which for us is absolutely great, if
    you are just working with Linux-Servers. While Xen is a rather
    complete virtualization, OpenVz is lightweight and comes in handy, if
    you just want to logically separate servers. We've got each IMS
    component (P-/I-/S-CSCF, HSS, Application-Servers, Databases) running
    on a dedicated OpenVz Container, which is really great. We've even got
    a CentOs-Container running on a Debian OpenVz, which is started
    "on-demand" in order to build RPM-Packages. With OpenVz you can even
    move Containers from one host to another, theoretically with zero
    downtime (doesn't work with SEMS, don't know about other software).
    For our IMS-setup, we work with RTP-Relaying, which works great within
    virtualization, i cannot complain.

    At another customer (a fibre provider in Germany), we're running all
    the infrastructure on Xen-only. An infrastructure provider takes care
    of the administration, but those servers run poorly (RTP-Relaying is
    okay but everything else is really slow).

    Conclusion for me: VoIP on virtual servers can work great, but the
    virtualization infrastructure needs to be administered properly which
    may not be an easy task, if you are new in this subject.

    Kind regards,
    Carsten

    2012/8/28 Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com
    <mailto:miconda@gmail.com>>:

     > Hello,
     >
     > just asking to see your experience deploying sip platforms on virtual
     > systems. So far I was running Kamailio in virtual machines and no
    problems,
     > but I insisted that media servers to be on physical machines.
    Lately is more
     > pressure from the market to go everything virtual.
     >
     > So the question is more about having everything on virtual
    systems, proxy
     > and media server, where the media server can deal with transcoding,
     > conference rooms and IVRs.
     >
     > Any strong comments pro or against?
     >
     > What is your preferred virtualization system for such deployments?
     >
     > Cheers,
     > Daniel
     >
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