Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?
Hi Binni, We run a number of Asterisk servers on virtual machines. I'm not heavily involved in the virtualisation side of the business so i'm afraid i can't give you much advice on it, Past saying it is possible to have an Asterisk System up and running reliably on virtual machines. Our virtualisation platform is KVM based. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will be able to help!. Cheers, AJ. - Original Message - From: Brynjolfur Thorvardsson bi...@itanet.nu To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2012 1:51:03 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? Hi All Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy with sound quality etc. Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a “production” Asterisk server on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers), perhaps that is the way I should be going? I have heard someone mention “Asterisk friendly” VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or aren’t friendly? We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but after testing I am not so sure any more! Any info would be very welcome! Regards Binni -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?
As long as you are using SIP trunking, Asterisk will perform nicely. If you want PRI or DAHDI trunks, that's a different bridge to cross. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Stanfield Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:05 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? Hi Binni, We run a number of Asterisk servers on virtual machines. I'm not heavily involved in the virtualisation side of the business so i'm afraid i can't give you much advice on it, Past saying it is possible to have an Asterisk System up and running reliably on virtual machines. Our virtualisation platform is KVM based. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will be able to help!. Cheers, AJ. - Original Message - From: Brynjolfur Thorvardsson bi...@itanet.nu To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2012 1:51:03 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? Hi All Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy with sound quality etc. Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a “production” Asterisk server on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers), perhaps that is the way I should be going? I have heard someone mention “Asterisk friendly” VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or aren’t friendly? We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but after testing I am not so sure any more! Any info would be very welcome! Regards Binni -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?
Hi Binni, It often depends on how over-subscribed / over-sold the server is as well as CPU scheduling. People often suggest KVM VPS' over OpenVZ etc. There are a few companies that have VPS products specifically designed for voice hosting (presumably a lower ratio of VM's per server and upstream bandwidth better suited for voice) and this may be worth investigating. Some even provide templates for provisioning your container / VM with TrixBox or Elastix. If you are looking for a particular geographical location or a have a specific solution (conferencing / trunk lines etc) your options won't be as many. Kind Regards Stuart On 04/20/2012 07:51 PM, Brynjolfur Thorvardsson wrote: Hi All Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy with sound quality etc. Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a “production” Asterisk server on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers), perhaps that is the way I should be going? I have heard someone mention “Asterisk friendly” VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or aren’t friendly? We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but after testing I am not so sure any more! Any info would be very welcome! Regards Binni -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?
We run many of our asterisk servers on Hyper-V Clusters with openSuse 12.1. They work great All of our PRI PSTN conversions are done with gateway appliances and the bulk of our traffic comes in SIP trunk from providers. We have 16 switches on virtual and 10 on dedicated. We are add all new asterisk switches as virtual, and removing old physical installs as space is needed in the racks to accommodate new servers to support the virtual deployments. Thanks Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.) 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 From: Brynjolfur Thorvardsson bi...@itanet.nu Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:54 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? Hi All Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy with sound quality etc.Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a production Asterisk server on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers), perhaps that is the way I should be going? I have heard someone mention Asterisk friendly VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or aren't friendly? We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but after testing I am not so sure any more! Any info would be very welcome! Regards Binni -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?
We also run asterisk in a virtual environment, VMWare specifically, along side of web, database, email and DNS (virtual) servers. As far as I'm concerned, it runs as well as it ever did in a real environment. We are using HP Proliant DL360 G5's (3gz Xeon 5160 dual core processors). In our case, the VM hosts that run asterisk are only running Linux guests, and so we require relatively little memory...only 4gb. We also have a larger VM host, similarly configured, but running windows guests and that one has 18gb. Before settling on VMWare, we tried some of the open source solutions, and those did not work as well for us, but VMWare is TOPS. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bryant Zimmerman Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:12 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? We run many of our asterisk servers on Hyper-V Clusters with openSuse 12.1. They work great All of our PRI PSTN conversions are done with gateway appliances and the bulk of our traffic comes in SIP trunk from providers. We have 16 switches on virtual and 10 on dedicated. We are add all new asterisk switches as virtual, and removing old physical installs as space is needed in the racks to accommodate new servers to support the virtual deployments. Thanks Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.) 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 From: Brynjolfur Thorvardsson bi...@itanet.numailto:bi...@itanet.nu Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:54 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.commailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers? Hi All Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy with sound quality etc. Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a production Asterisk server on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers), perhaps that is the way I should be going? I have heard someone mention Asterisk friendly VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or aren't friendly? We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but after testing I am not so sure any more! Any info would be very welcome! Regards Binni No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comhttp://www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4947 - Release Date: 04/19/12 -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
