[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 8/28/12 10:33 AM, 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.

so you use opensolaris, I guess, and then it can be any intel/amd arch 
server (e.g., dell, hp)?

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> 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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