On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Michiel van Baak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16:18, Sat 17 May 08, Steve Totaro wrote: >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Michiel van Baak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 14:42, Sat 17 May 08, Steve Totaro wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM, nik600 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi >> >> > >> >> > what about asterisk virtualization on VMWARE XS infrastructure? >> >> > >> >> > The system installed will manage a call center with 50 operator, >> >> > queues, CDR logging on external database. >> >> > >> >> > the protocol used is SIP, probably with G711 codec. >> >> > >> >> > Virtualization of Asterisk i a risk regarding performance? >> >> > >> >> > Thanks to all >> >> >> >> I wouldn't do it. Maybe in a lab but certainly not for a 50 seat call >> >> center. >> > >> > I would ;) >> > We run asterisk under vmware in production and have no problem with it. >> > This is in a pure voip setup. >> >> Production = 50 seat call center? What would an hour or two of >> downtime cost you in your "production" setup? > > That would be: one of the many customers we host. > We have a hosted setup with over 100 companies, so an hour or two will > be a massive claim I'm sure. > > At the moment we have 4 asterisk servers under vmware that act like one > freaking big and stable machine to the outside world. > I dont think this is because of vmware, could have done the same setup > with asterisk dedicated hardware but why bother when it works this way > as well ? > > -- > > Michiel van Baak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://michiel.vanbaak.eu > GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD > > "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" >
I suppose if it works, it works and that is all that matters. But I would say "why bother when it works this way as well?" too about the dedicated hardware. ;-) It just seems like another layer to break. Thanks, Steve Totaro _______________________________________________ -- 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
