[Freeswitch-users] Is it a good idea to deploy Freeswitch on Xen Instances/Virtual Machines?

[Randy Andrade]

While I can't really speak to a hosted Xen setup, I ran freeswitch on a
premise-based ESXi system rather successfully for a period of time. I did
end up moving it to a dedicated hardware box, however, due to the issues
with (slightly) choppy audio, and my biggest issue, the sender --> receiver
latency whenever someone would speak. The latter might not be an issue, if
you're just using it for an IVR, however what I did find to be wonderful was
how easy the migration was. I literally just installed the same OS on my
hardware system, built & compiled FS (with the same options / modules), then
copied the entire /conf directory from my VM to the hardware system and
restarted FS there. I should also note that all other variables (hostname,
IP, etc) remained the same between the VM and the hardware box.

Randy

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Sidharth Kshatriya
<sid.kshatriya at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm interested in installing Freeswitch on Xen servers (e.g. linode.com or
> slicehost or maybe even Amazon EC2). I'll be purchasing a few SIP trunks to
> my freeswitch installation and running an an IVR system there.
>
> I'd like to know whether this is a recommended or desirable thing to do.
> I've heard that the latency on Xen can be bad for "real time" applications
> like IVRs. Don't want to install freeswitch on my server and later hear
> choppy voice on the IVR!! :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sidharth
>
>
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> Sidharth Kshatriya
> www.sidk.info
>
>
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