[Freeswitch-users] HA questions.

[Michael Jerris]

The easiest place to do this is at the point you send the calls to FreeSWITCH.  How are the calls coming in?

Mike

On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

> I have read some of the archived emails about HA, loadbalancing,
> failover etc and I am still a bit confused about how I could set up
> some sort of resiliency with freeswitch.
> 
> My situation is much less complex than the scenarios people were
> talking about and I hoping the solution is similarly much less
> complex.
> 
> I have two machines. Both will run freeswitch and also an IVR
> application with local databases.  I will take care of the database,
> application and configuration synchronization between the two
> machines.  Ideally the calls would be load balanced between the
> machines and if any application falls down then the calls should go to
> the other machine. Same if I take a machine down for whatever reason.
> 
> If a machine goes down I am willing to "lose" those people who were
> making a call at the time. I do have a flag in the application which
> will stop answering the calls while processing the existing calls for
> a graceful shutdown and hopefully the load balancer would shuttle the
> calls to the other machine while this is happening.
> 
> At this stage everything is done via SIP.
> 
> My questions are...
> 
> Do I have to have a sip proxy? If the answer is yes it seems like I
> have to set up two sip proxies so I don't have another single point of
> failure. Can I load the sip proxies on the same machine? Do I need two
> more machines?
> 
> If I take load balancing out of the picture would it be possible to do
> a simple linux HA or a windows built in ip failover solution? Would a
> simple IP failover work over UDP or would I have to use IAX and tcp/ip
> ?
> 
> Is it better to go the virtualization route?
> 
> Sorry if these are dumb questions. I am just trying to get my head
> wrapped around this. I don't need five nines (although that would be
> awesome), I just want a reasonable degree of assurance that my app can
> keep taking calls in case something weird happens.