>On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, James Lamanna<jlama...@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
