Hi Sven, I was wondering if you have your images running under amazon's new API, where your data is not lost at reboot and can be told not to terminate.
I am asking because, if so, someone created those images for you with the API. I am looking to do the same thing (not for sipx at this time), so I can roll out some new services and wanted to know how it went (it's a new API). If you can share anything, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Tony On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Sven Evensen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Guys, > > We are running sipX in EC2 cloud. So far so good. I have a SIP trunk to > a local ITSP and also tested with a Cisco voice GW in our office as well > as soft phones (Zopier). We are using the m1.small. Media seems ok there > but we have not done any load testing yet. > > We used ami ami-3284ac46, pretty much just picked a centos image. Copied > the rpms over and installed. We tried bundling a running sipX Image so > we could fire up new instances, but have not gotten that to work because > new instance comes up with new internal and external IP addresses as > well as host name. If we do get that sorted out, we also must consider > all the data that is lost when an instance crashes. Therefore you MUST > use an EBS volume and get all the sipX data to store there or maybe just > have the backups there. We have not gotten that far yet. > > Elastic IP addresses is also highly recommended. No cost and makes sure > that all soft phones etc do not have to change when sipX image restarts > with new ip address. > > Just some thoughts about cost. The cost of CPU is easy to calculate, > remember using a reserved instance (1 or 3 year) makes CPU cost VERY > reasonable. When it comes to data cost, I calculated one soft phone user > making 10 3 minute calls per day over 1 month will cost approx 0.10$. > Cheap! > > Regards, > Sven > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony > Graziano > Sent: 28 November 2009 18:27 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] SipXecs on Amazon EC2 > > No. Not the same. > > Your image needs to maintain all data betweens reboots and > shutdown/startup > with aws. Once you add your repo and install sipx, you have no way to > guarantee that image will keep your data at the next use. > > The firewall needs to use static (symmetric) nat in order for sipxbridge > to > work. > > If you're that confident give it a try and post a how-to. "Anytime" we > do a > deployment on aws, we use our own images so the data stays intact. > > As far as ram, etc., depending on your density (user), the smallest > instance > should be fine. > > Good luck! > ============================ > Tony Graziano, Manager > Telephone: 434.984.8430 > Fax: 434.984.8431 > > Email: [email protected] > > LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: > Telephone: 434.984.8426 > Fax: 434.984.8427 > > Helpdesk Contract Customers: > http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robert B <[email protected]> > To: Tony Graziano <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat Nov 28 13:21:09 2009 > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] SipXecs on Amazon EC2 > > Tony, > > From what I've seen, EC2 provides a firewall as well as means to > configure ports and such. > > I believe there is a CentOS 5.2 AMI available as well. > > It should just be a matter of adding the repositories and using yum, > AFAIK... > > I agree with 4.2 being the "magic release" in terms of the media server > situation -- at least from what I've read. Still, 1.7gb of RAM included > with m1.small should conceivably be enough. I'm a bit more worried about > the single-CPU issue, however. > > -- Robert > > > > Tony Graziano wrote: > > Someone was "playing" with is earlier this month. You would need a > static > > ip, and your own ami image. Remember you have no firewall or real > "server > > behind nat" capability. > > > > You also would have to consider the "load" aspect as it relates to > media > > server in the current version. > > > > You should consult the aws docs about submitting your own ami image. > We > > have > > several ami images of our own, but have not had the need for sipx > there > > yet. > > > > I feel like the 4.2 version "might" be more cloud friendly. I for one > > would > > like an amazon s3 backup agent for it at some point too. > > ============================ > > Tony Graziano, Manager > > Telephone: 434.984.8430 > > Fax: 434.984.8431 > > > > Email: [email protected] > > > > LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: > > Telephone: 434.984.8426 > > Fax: 434.984.8427 > > > > Helpdesk Contract Customers: > > http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? 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