Hi All,
I am trying to decide weather to move my asterisk setup on to a Xen
setup or not. I do use transcoding, meetme and music on hold although in a
purely sip scenario real lines are handled via cisco kit. Currently its a
dedicated box with X100P card for timing handling it however it's starting
to get a bit long in the tooth and I want to replace it. I currently handle
up to 45 simultaneous calls but this will be doubling in the next year.
Question is do I still need to worry about timing and if so can this be
resolved in a Xen enviroment?
One other question is how does multi cpu's scale is it better to have a
highspeed dual core or a lower speed quad core?
Any pointers greatly appreciated.
Dee
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dee Lowndes <mailinglist at asyouneed.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > I am trying to decide weather to move my asterisk setup on to a Xen > setup or not. I do use transcoding, meetme and music on hold although in a > purely sip scenario real lines are handled via cisco kit. Currently its a > dedicated box with X100P card for timing handling it however it's starting > to get a bit long in the tooth and I want to replace it. I currently handle > up to 45 simultaneous calls but this will be doubling in the next year. > > Question is do I still need to worry about timing and if so can this be > resolved in a Xen enviroment? > > One other question is how does multi cpu's scale is it better to have a > highspeed dual core or a lower speed quad core? > > Any pointers greatly appreciated. > > DeeJust shooting from the hip but if you have the ability to use a dedicated box for Asterisk, then go that route. Xen has a very high cool factor and may work OK with Asterisk but why take the chance unless it is just a dev environment? Thanks, Steve Totaro
2008/4/30 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>:> > > Consider lighter forms of virtualization as well: openvz / > linux-vserver.Which would allow to "allocate" a given PCI card to a given virtual machine (without being too difficult to learn and manage) ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080430/b767530c/attachment.htm
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:11 +0100, Dee Lowndes wrote:> Hi All, > > I am trying to decide weather to move my asterisk setup on to a Xen > setup or not. I do use transcoding, meetme and music on hold although in a > purely sip scenario real lines are handled via cisco kit. Currently its a > dedicated box with X100P card for timing handling it however it's starting > to get a bit long in the tooth and I want to replace it. I currently handle > up to 45 simultaneous calls but this will be doubling in the next year. > > Question is do I still need to worry about timing and if so can this be > resolved in a Xen enviroment? > > One other question is how does multi cpu's scale is it better to have a > highspeed dual core or a lower speed quad core? > > Any pointers greatly appreciated. > > DeeYes, you can. I have both the latest 1.4 and also 1.6 running as a XEN-dom-u. Used SuSE-10.3 as dom-0 and dom-u and prebuild asterisk rpm from the build-server. No problem what so ever, although just pure digital call. Big question remains, why would you want to do it? In my case, a test environment, it makse sense. I can freeze the image and use the footprint for other experiments. For production however, i would rather see my pabx running on a dedicated platform, as small as possible (no-break-power backup), not a power hungry large server....