[SR-Users] SIP Server Hardware or VM ??

[Pinter, Gerd.]

Thank you very much, this underpins my consideration.
How to tell my Boss :o  

Nice Regards

Gerd





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Von: sr-users <sr-users-bounces at lists.kamailio.org> Im Auftrag von Daniel Tryba
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2018 16:03
An: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users at lists.kamailio.org>
Betreff: Re: [SR-Users] SIP Server Hardware or VM ??

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:25:58PM +0000, Pinter, Gerd. wrote:
> The question is, if anyone has experience if this issue maybe can be 
> solved by running the Sip Server on a standalone hardware plugged into 
> network Port on our Hardware Firewall, instead of a virtual Machine 
> running on VM with virtual switches and so on. The current SIP Server 
> has a Public IP Address, but all the Traffic runs thru Firewall, VPN, 
> Hardware Switches and Virtual Switches. What you think?

Virtualisation can/will add some jitter, but if you configure your setup correctly it will work fine for normal phone calls [*]. For example in VMware there is something caller NIC interrupt coalescing. AFAIK this is enable by default but introduces latency for RTP streams.

But have bare hardware with a rtpproxy will perform better, without any tuning a recent machine relayed 900Mbit/s (simulated RTP packets) with ease, running vmware a single cpu guest instance was limited to about 40Mbit/s, 2 CPUs in the guest topped out at  about 90Mbit/s before jitter and eventual loss occured (with coalescing disabled).

*: jitter introduced by rtpengine is negligible compared to the jitter introduced by the endpoints themselves (either devices or network setup).

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