[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
miconda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 07:46:28 CEST 2012
On 8/28/12 6:09 PM, Jason Penton wrote:
>
> No. We use solaris11.
>
IIRC, solaris 11 was free for evaluation purposes, has that changed?
BTW, since mainstream opensolaris was discontinued, anyone knows what is
the best derivative (if that is at all)?
Cheers,
Daniel
> But yes on any hardware
>
> On Aug 28, 2012 5:56 PM, "Daniel-Constantin Mierla" <miconda at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <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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>> >
>> >
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>>
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