Michael,
There is no reason why it wouldn't be able to run as an ESXi VM. I spun up
one myself a few months ago to serveas a firewall on a vSphere5 box, and
it's running fine, so I know it does work.
You might run into some issues with the disk creation/expansion. I did, and
was forced to run the VM under Workstation in order to increase the size
and manage it at all. For some reason, ESXi just didn't like it. Outside of
that minor hiccup during installation/setup, it's been perfectly happy
since. I'm not running any voice applications though, only using it as a
firewall, but I will probably setup something in the near future as a test
server when I get time. Yes, I know there are other options for firewall
appliances out there, but I only needed a simple one and I like Astlinux
and it worked perfectly for my needs.
However, I would be cautious with running any real-time communications
server in a virtualized environment. It can be done, and people do it all
the time, but you need to consider those additional factors and plan it out
accordingly. In a hosted environment you don't control, eg: a $20/month
VPS, you are just asking for trouble. If you have a dedicated server of
your own that you can adjust the resource allocation for on the bare metal,
and you can ensure that the VM and Asterisk are not going to be fighting
for CPU/memory/disk/etc. resources, then you will probably be OK. It also
comes down to the volume of traffic you plan to run through it.
--James
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Michael Knill <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry this may have already been asked.
>
> I am looking at running a hosted Asterisk solution to provide some
> centralised IP Telephony functionality.
> Yes I realise that this is not what Astlinux has been designed for,
> however is there any reason that you would not run it in a VMWare ESXi
> based hosted solution?
> It may require media traversal!
>
> All my admin interfaces and applications have been developed around the
> solution and it's extremely resource efficient so I would rather not have
> another build but then it's not imperative.
>
> Regards
> Michael Knill
>
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