[Freeswitch-users] 2012 VoIP With Virtualization

[Chris Mylonas]

OK 400 calls is on the very high end of what I would have put on a VM.  If you wouldn't mind explaining your VM set up that would be great.


On 15/05/2012, at 10:54 PM, Wesley Akio wrote:

> 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.
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> Sent from mobile, sorry for the typos....
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> 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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