[Freeswitch-users] 2012 VoIP With Virtualization

[Wesley Akio]

As said before, it depends heavily in your setup... We do virtualize
FreeSWITCH and aside from a few glitches it has been good... We have approx
400 calls per VM. Later when I hit the office I can describe my setup in
detail.

Sent from mobile, sorry for the typos....
Em 15/05/2012 09:42, "Saugort Dario Garcia Tovar" <dgarcia at anew.com.ve>
escreveu:

>  Hi, Chris
>
> That depend of your enviroment. First you have to take a sort of
> scientific approach: define, trial and test again and again until the
> result be consistent.
> Second tell us about your enviroment:
>     - Real hardware: the server that will run your vm. ¿Are blades, small
> server, etc? VM software used (VMware, OpenVZ, XEN, Jails...)?
>     - ¿How you set your VM? cpu, cpu cores, memory, disk, #nic?
>     - ¿How many calls have you handle in the real world?
>     - ¿Transcoding?
>     - ¿Have you tested your VM?
>
> Virtualized enviroment for VoIP are growing. I am consultant for contact
> center services, and I have receive a lot of questions about
> virtualization. A solution provider can give some guidence about sizing and
> technical considerations but at the end the final word is:  YOU HAVE MAKE
> A LOAD TEST TO TEST YOUR ENVIROMENT AND IDENTIFY POSSIBLE ISSUES BEFORE GO
> TO PRODUCTION!!!!
>
> Virtualization solutions will  do their homework to make VoIP a secure
> option. Look this paper for wmware:
>
> http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2012/01/voip-performance-on-vsphere-5.html
> http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/voip-perf-vsphere5.pdf
>
> On 5/15/2012 4:42 AM, Chris Mylonas wrote:
>
> Hi FS Users,
>
> What is the consensus about using virtualized servers for real-time voice (RTP)?  Even up until a few years ago it was hard to guarantee the CPU cycles to the voice nodes.
> Virtualizing the signalling (SIP) has always been favourable in terms of HA.
>
> If the entire host is under control, is it safe to say - we can virtualise voice?
> Does it depend on what else is shared in the host - say it would be silly to put a high load database server on the same hardware node...
>
> Thanks for your inputs
> Chris
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