[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems

[Jason Penton]

No. We use solaris11. But yes on any hardware
On Aug 28, 2012 5:56 PM, "Daniel-Constantin Mierla" <miconda at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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>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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>> >
>> >
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>>
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