[Freeswitch-users] Running FS on a heavy loaded VMWare host

[Jeff Leung]

Now here comes the fun part -debating what virtualization platform works
best for FreeSWITCH. We won't get there just yet ;)

 

In my experience, as long as your hypervisor provides a synthetic
timing/clock device, you should be fine as long as the underlying host
isn't completely overloaded.

 

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
[mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of
Grant Bagdasarian
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 11:34 PM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help (freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org)
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Running FS on a heavy loaded VMWare host

 

Hello,

 

I've been going through some threads about virtualization, some say it
works for them, others say it doesn't. Multiple platforms are used like
MS Hyper-V, VM Ware, etc.

We currently run FS on a physical box, which works great. 

 

We have our own virtual environment, VMWare vSphere 5.0. Our 5.0
environment is running under heavy load and I was wondering would FS
(configured properly for correct timing) still function properly and
able to handle hundreds of concurrent calls on a heavy loaded VMWare
host? The FS virtual will also process RTP in default mode. I was hoping
if someone had any experience using this setup and could give me some
insights on this matter. The FS virtuals will function only as SBC's, so
no complex dial plans, no call recording, no conferencing. Just bridging
the incoming call leg with an outgoing one. 

 

VMWare has a tech paper about running VoIP on their virtual machine, and
they claim it works.
(http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/voip-perf-vsphere5.pdf). In
the paper they used Mitel vMCD, but I'm not sure if the software has
been optimized to run on VMWare so the tests would come out better than
running any other telephony software like FreeSwitch or Asterisk. 

 

Grant

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