[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems

Jason Penton jason.penton at smilecoms.com
Tue Aug 28 12:33:57 CEST 2012


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 at 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 at ng-voice.com
>> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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://twitter.com/#!/miconda <http://twitter.com/#%21/**miconda<http://twitter.com/#%21/miconda>>
>> -
>>
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>>      > Kamailio Advanced Training, Berlin, Nov 5-8, 2012 -
>>     http://asipto.com/u/kat
>>      >
>>      >
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>>
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>>
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