John Cianfarani
2006-Mar-02 17:14 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] RE: [on-asterisk] containers, virtualization, and high availability
I've been trying out asterisk on xen myself. One thing to note for anyone that is experimenting that by default the Xen kernel runs at 100hz. To use ztdummy you need a 1000hz source so you need to recompile the dom0 and domU kernels with 1000hz. If remember correctly you also need to set CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y in the kernel as well. I have not tested the service migration but it does sound interesting. I'm interesting in trying to get DRDB to work between machines. Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: simon@uc.org [mailto:simon@uc.org] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:58 PM To: TAUG Subject: [on-asterisk] containers, virtualization, and high availability I've been meaning to try out migrating a running Xen machine running asterisk from one computer to another to see if there's any call interruption. My rudimentary ping/ssh tests have been successful, showing no interruption of service. Can you migrating a running container from one computer to another with Solaris 10? I know it's supported in VMWare ESX($$$), and Xen. The feature I'm really looking foward to in Xen is something called lock-step execution -- a technique which allows you to have two or more machines running the same instructions and have one immediately step in for another if the other crashes or has an underlying hardware fault. Along with that comes replayability, so that you can go back in time and see what the machine was doing just before the failure. Sweet! Cheers, Simon P. Ditner On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Paul Nash wrote:> > running x number of virtual Asterisk servers on one physical Linux > > server to a SAN, > > I assume that you're thinking of Linux running on VMWare running onLinux.> VMWare have an enterprise product (not sure if it's hit the streetsyet)> that is similar to IBM's mainframe VM supervisor. Very lightweight, > partitions the machine, loads onto bare metal. Almost no overhead. > > If you want to do the same thing for free, look at Xen, which has asimilar> approach. The guest operating system has to understand Xen (whichmakes> for great performance), but both Linux and NetBSD have Xen ports. Youmay> have to hack up some digium/sangoma drives for Xen to present virtualcards> to the VMs, but that shouldn't take very long. > > Solaris is a fine enterprise OS, but is *very* resource-hungry. > > paul > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: asterisk-unsubscribe@uc.org > For additional commands, e-mail: asterisk-help@uc.org > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: asterisk-unsubscribe@uc.org For additional commands, e-mail: asterisk-help@uc.org