On 01/05/2008 00:27, "George Pajari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:11 +0100, Dee Lowndes wrote: >> >>> ...Question is do I still need to worry about timing and if so can this be >>> resolved in a Xen enviroment?... >>> > > We're an ITSP and use OpenVZ to offer customers Virtual Private Asterisk > Servers (see www.vpas.ca) -- the same idea as Virtual Private Servers in > the Linux world but with Asterisk added. > > Because of our network architecture, we chose to put the Digium cards in > dedicated (i.e. not virtualised) servers acting as gateways to several > OpenVZ servers so that the base environment (called VE0 in OpenVZ > nomenclature) does nothing but load the ztdummy module. All the client > VEs communicate with one or more SBCs or media gateways (i.e. servers > with Digium Quad-PRI cards) using SIP or IAX. > > Each virtual environment has access to a pseudo timer so they can run > meetme conferences etc. How does the pseudo timer compare to having a Digium card when handling large number of calls in a meetme conference? Also have you tried OpenVZ with a digium card does it allow direct access to it? > > Works very very well. We've migrated existing Asterisk configurations > from dedicated servers to OpenVZ virtual servers for customers who > cannot tell the difference. And a lot cleaner and more secure than > trying to run multi-tenant configurations/dialplans within a single > asterisk instance (which we still do for some customers for historical > reasons). I quiet like the sound of that as it does get a bit messy all on one asterisk instance. > > Sorry but we've no experience running Asterisk on Xen -- we looked at > Xen way back when were deciding on which way to go and chose OpenVZ > because it was (at least for us) easier to get running, easier to > support ztdummy, and more efficient (i.e. thinner) than Xen. > >>> One other question is how does multi cpu's scale is it better to have a >>> highspeed dual core or a lower speed quad core? >>> > > We use both and given the modest load you're proposing, it won't matter > -- get the cheapest. Our benchmarks showed that we get more bang for the > buck with X3210 Quad Core Xeons than the dual cores and so that is what > we've standardised on for now but YMMV. Thanks for the pointers. Dee _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
