Hello Paul: Nice for you to have replied! I'm not only talking about VMWare. Solaris has something similar built into itself that works similar to VMWare... but is for the OS itself on several containers. So you can run several instances of Solaris in separate containers & if an app crashes in one, other containers are not affected.
With regards to Solaris being very resource-hungry, I guess is a matter of perspective. I'm using Solaris 10 x64 on AMD on a 1 gig RAM - and it works very well. It also runs Linux apps natively... very well. With the help of WINE from winehq.com, it also runs most of my windows apps. I know Solaris 8 x86, running on my P3-500 appeared to be quite resource hungry, but Solaris 10 on the same P3 appeared to out perform though installation was a drag. I'm quite happy it performs pretty well on my AMD - and my P3 is serving as my enterprise home answering machine ;). The VMWare enterprise product that you are talking about is VMWare ESX Server. Yes, that is a very amazing piece of technology... and I've seen it in action. XEN is however NEWS to me!!! I'll investigate it sometime tonight or the weekend. Have you used it with Asterisk yet? If you have, would love to hear about some benchmarks & Asterisk compatibility running on the XEN layer. Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "TAUG" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:52 PM Subject: [on-asterisk] [Bulk] Re: [on-asterisk] Solaris OS, SUN & Oracle. >> 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 on Linux. > VMWare have an enterprise product (not sure if it's hit the streets yet) > 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 a similar > approach. The guest operating system has to understand Xen (which makes > for great performance), but both Linux and NetBSD have Xen ports. You may > have to hack up some digium/sangoma drives for Xen to present virtual cards > to the VMs, but that shouldn't take very long. > > Solaris is a fine enterprise OS, but is *very* resource-hungry. > > paul >
