Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Pascal Bruno tipas...@gmail.com wrote: Where you able to compile DAHDI in a virtual environment? How about skype for asterisk? Has anyone tried that in a virtual environment? Seems like to register the license, digium tool is looking for a connection on eth0, and in a virtual environment I see the name as vnet0 or vnet1. At least that what I see on godaddy's virtual servers. I did that under VMWare (Server / formerly GSX), including the Skype for Asterisk, and it works (only after upgrading to 1.6.1.3-rc1, earlier version crashed after Skype call setup, but that's not related to the VM, but an asterisk bug...). Though it is merely a test environment, I haven't even tried more than one simultaneous call. HTH, -- Shimi ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
It depends on processor capability, disk access time and bandwidth. You will need to dedicate slices of disk and bandwidth for each machine. A realworld scenario of worst case would be this: You get sucky throughput on VM2 because 3 or 4 folks are monitoring calls or using voicemail on VM1. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of James Lamanna Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:47 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare,how does it perform and what is the limit? Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
been testing with Sun VirtualBox and i managed more than 30 extensions on a 2GHz Dual core machine with 1 GB ram for the VBOX.. just not running recodring or encoding .. things went well -- AHD Tarek Sawah Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:47:03 -0700 From: jlama...@gmail.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit? Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
Where you able to compile DAHDI in a virtual environment? How about skype for asterisk? Has anyone tried that in a virtual environment? Seems like to register the license, digium tool is looking for a connection on eth0, and in a virtual environment I see the name as vnet0 or vnet1. At least that what I see on godaddy's virtual servers. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tarek Sawah tareksa...@hotmail.com wrote: been testing with Sun VirtualBox and i managed more than 30 extensions on a 2GHz Dual core machine with 1 GB ram for the VBOX.. just not running recodring or encoding .. things went well -- AHD Tarek Sawah Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:47:03 -0700 From: jlama...@gmail.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit? Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
Talk to damin AT nacs.net (he's on this mailinglist) Zoaaa James Lamanna wrote: Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, James Lamannajlama...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. So VMWare messes around with clock timing. This is a Bad Thing if you're trying to do things that rely on faithful timing, such as audio mixing for a MeetMe conference room. If you're only doing very simple things like playing messages or ordinary bridged two-way phone calls it probably wouldn't be as bad. If call quality matters, at all, I wouldn't go that route. If managing a real server with asterisk is too hard for your data center, may I humbly suggest an asterisk appliance? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, James Lamannajlama...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. So VMWare messes around with clock timing. This is a Bad Thing if you're trying to do things that rely on faithful timing, such as audio mixing for a MeetMe conference room. If you're only doing very simple things like playing messages or ordinary bridged two-way phone calls it probably wouldn't be as bad. If call quality matters, at all, I wouldn't go that route. If managing a real server with asterisk is too hard for your data center, may I humbly suggest an asterisk appliance? Managing a server isn't the problem, I'm just looking to explore all solutions. If the call quality issues are that bad on vmware, then it is a non-starter in my book, especially trying to support the number of extensions I have now (I have 500 at the moment). Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?
I was able to get a VMWare Fusion CentOS 5.3 with Asterisk 1.6.0.9 talking to a Xorcom Astribank on my MacBook. I could connect a POTS line to an FXO port and a phone to an FXS port and make calls. -- Jim Dickenson mailto:dicken...@cfmc.com CfMC http://www.cfmc.com/ On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Pascal Bruno wrote: Where you able to compile DAHDI in a virtual environment? How about skype for asterisk? Has anyone tried that in a virtual environment? Seems like to register the license, digium tool is looking for a connection on eth0, and in a virtual environment I see the name as vnet0 or vnet1. At least that what I see on godaddy's virtual servers. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tarek Sawah tareksa...@hotmail.com wrote: been testing with Sun VirtualBox and i managed more than 30 extensions on a 2GHz Dual core machine with 1 GB ram for the VBOX.. just not running recodring or encoding .. things went well -- AHD Tarek Sawah Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:47:03 -0700 From: jlama...@gmail.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit? Hi, I'm coming up with ideas about building a cluster of asterisk servers, and am exploring the virtualization option. I'm curious to know some real-world data about how many extensions a VMWare install on good hardware could support. I've seen stories about how the hypervisor timeslicing can wreak havoc on call quality at some point. Is this really the case? If so, what's a feasible extension limit? 20? 50? 100? Any information would be great. Thanks. -- James ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_sync:082009 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
