Hey Daniel,<br><br>We use Solaris virtualisation and it works great. The zones (VMs per se) are lightweight, easy to administer and rock solid. <br><br>btw, common misconceptions are that you need sun (oracle) hardware and that the os is not free. These are both false. <br>
<br>cheers<br>Jason<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Carsten Bock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carsten@ng-voice.com" target="_blank">carsten@ng-voice.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Daniel,<br>
<br>
here's from my personal experience:<br>
Our setup at ng-voice is a little weird sometimes: We've rented some<br>
virtual servers at a german provider (who uses Xen). On these virtual<br>
servers we've installed OpenVz, which for us is absolutely great, if<br>
you are just working with Linux-Servers. While Xen is a rather<br>
complete virtualization, OpenVz is lightweight and comes in handy, if<br>
you just want to logically separate servers. We've got each IMS<br>
component (P-/I-/S-CSCF, HSS, Application-Servers, Databases) running<br>
on a dedicated OpenVz Container, which is really great. We've even got<br>
a CentOs-Container running on a Debian OpenVz, which is started<br>
"on-demand" in order to build RPM-Packages. With OpenVz you can even<br>
move Containers from one host to another, theoretically with zero<br>
downtime (doesn't work with SEMS, don't know about other software).<br>
For our IMS-setup, we work with RTP-Relaying, which works great within<br>
virtualization, i cannot complain.<br>
<br>
At another customer (a fibre provider in Germany), we're running all<br>
the infrastructure on Xen-only. An infrastructure provider takes care<br>
of the administration, but those servers run poorly (RTP-Relaying is<br>
okay but everything else is really slow).<br>
<br>
Conclusion for me: VoIP on virtual servers can work great, but the<br>
virtualization infrastructure needs to be administered properly which<br>
may not be an easy task, if you are new in this subject.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Carsten<br>
<br>
2012/8/28 Daniel-Constantin Mierla <<a href="mailto:miconda@gmail.com">miconda@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> just asking to see your experience deploying sip platforms on virtual<br>
> systems. So far I was running Kamailio in virtual machines and no problems,<br>
> but I insisted that media servers to be on physical machines. Lately is more<br>
> pressure from the market to go everything virtual.<br>
><br>
> So the question is more about having everything on virtual systems, proxy<br>
> and media server, where the media server can deal with transcoding,<br>
> conference rooms and IVRs.<br>
><br>
> Any strong comments pro or against?<br>
><br>
> What is your preferred virtualization system for such deployments?<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Daniel<br>
><br>
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