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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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 _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2171 / Virus Database: 2425/4999 - Release Date: 05/14/12
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