[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems

[Jason Penton]

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 at 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 at 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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> http://asipto.com/u/kat
> >
> >
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