[SR-Users] [ot] virtualization systems

[Jason Penton]

Hi Daniel,

not evaluation, but if you use it in production then you are required to
buy a OS support contract. We however have standardised on Sun hardware
which includes support for Solaris 11 in our production environment. So,
yes a good point you make if you are going to be using in production on
non-sun hardware you will need to pay Oracle ;(

cheers
Jason

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 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>
> 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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