Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-12-07 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
e...@nortel.com] > Sent: 03 September 2009 13:46 > To: Simon Stockdale > Cc: 'Tony Graziano'; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare > > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:09 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: >> Thanks for the input Tony - I'll set up

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-09 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:20 -0400, Dan Mongrain wrote: > Regarding number (2), instead of having different ports to demultiplex > incoming traffic, couldn't sipXecs utilize a "virtual name space" > mechanism (I do not know if there is a correct term for this, but it is > similar to Apache's virt

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Mongrain
Regarding number (2), instead of having different ports to demultiplex incoming traffic, couldn't sipXecs utilize a "virtual name space" mechanism (I do not know if there is a correct term for this, but it is similar to Apache's virtual web service which looks at the network name of the URL to

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-09 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 08:18 -0400, Dale Worley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 23:16 -0400, John Buswell wrote: > > You can achieve (1) by using separate chroot environments (one per > > instance). I set this up about a year ago for a client, had no > > problems with it. > > When using chroot,

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-05 Thread John Buswell
I didn't try that. I ran full duplicate environments within each chroot. I do recall having to modify some scripts and config to force binding to separate IP addresses per instance. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:18, "Dale Worley" wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 23:16 -0400, John B

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-05 Thread Dale Worley
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 23:16 -0400, John Buswell wrote: > You can achieve (1) by using separate chroot environments (one per > instance). I set this up about a year ago for a client, had no > problems with it. When using chroot, can you avoid installing sipXecs separately into each environment?

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread John Buswell
Dale, You can achieve (1) by using separate chroot environments (one per instance). I set this up about a year ago for a client, had no problems with it. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 4, 2009, at 23:07, "Dale Worley" wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:12 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: >> One of

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread Dale Worley
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:12 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: > One of our key areas of expertise is performance testing Your company may have the skills to diagnose the problems that sipXecs has with VM systems, and I encourage you to pursue it. In regard to "multiple company" deployments, perhaps i

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread Picher, Michael
users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Keith Gearty Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 5:22 AM To: Simon Stockdale Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare Simon Stockdale wrote: >The reason behind pursuing the VMWare route is

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread Tony Graziano
9 10:22 To: Simon Stockdale Cc: 'Tony Graziano'; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare Simon Stockdale wrote: >The reason behind pursuing the VMWare route is simply that I would like to >deploy sipx to support more than one customer. Our options at present

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Stockdale
g Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare Simon Stockdale wrote: >The reason behind pursuing the VMWare route is simply that I would like to >deploy sipx to support more than one customer. Our options at present are >either modify sipxconfig code to provide some grouping of users to specific

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-04 Thread Keith Gearty
Simon Stockdale wrote: >The reason behind pursuing the VMWare route is simply that I would like to >deploy sipx to support more than one customer. Our options at present are >either modify sipxconfig code to provide some grouping of users to specific >companies or deploy multiple instances of SIPX

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread li...@grounded.net
Just thinking out loud... I don't have any hands on production time with sipx yet so my input is really just to cover things that some might be thinking as well. What is the mechanism for load balancing across additional servers? While there may be timing issues to resolve, assuming that one c

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:12 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: > If > we consider TDM rates of 64Kbps then we need to deal with one octet sample > every 125ms - this is an age in modern computing terms. SIP phones typically send an RTP packet every 20ms - too much variability in the generation and ar

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread li...@grounded.net
gt; multiple media apps and then virtualize the other parts. >  > Simon >  >  > -Original Message- > From: Scott Lawrence [mailto:scott.lawre...@nortel.com] > Sent: 03 September 2009 13:46 > To: Simon Stockdale > Cc: 'Tony Graziano'; sipx-users@list.sipfoun

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread li...@grounded.net
I toyed around with using ESX for asterisk which is more hardware intensive than sipx appears to be. I wanted the benefits of using a guest because of how nice it is to backup and have fail over to another server since I use centralized storage. I figured even if I have less users per servers, r

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Stockdale
From: Scott Lawrence [mailto:scott.lawre...@nortel.com] Sent: 03 September 2009 13:46 To: Simon Stockdale Cc: 'Tony Graziano'; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:09 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: > Thanks for the input Tony - I'l

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Carlos Robotti
-users@list.sipfoundry.org > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:43:55 +0100 > Subject: [sipx-users] VMWare > > > I know this topic has been discussed before but I want to try and get to the > bottom of the issues that people have been facing. > > I’ve just fired up a new VM host (Dell 2950

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:09 +0100, Simon Stockdale wrote: > Thanks for the input Tony - I'll set up a soak test to see what happens. > > The reason behind pursuing the VMWare route is simply that I would like to > deploy sipx to support more than one customer. Our options at present are > either

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Picher, Michael
ginal Message- From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Simon Stockdale Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:09 AM To: 'Tony Graziano'; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare Thanks for the input

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Stockdale
ssage- From: Tony Graziano [mailto:tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net] Sent: 03 September 2009 10:57 To: simon.stockd...@barrastone.com; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] VMWare after the system has been up several days, you will find the normal behavior of sipx consumes

Re: [sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Tony Graziano
after the system has been up several days, you will find the normal behavior of sipx consumes more real memory. when the VM function starts being used by several users at once in a production environment things might be quite different. There are 3 things in a virtual environment that affect sipx:

[sipx-users] VMWare

2009-09-03 Thread Simon Stockdale
I know this topic has been discussed before but I want to try and get to the bottom of the issues that people have been facing. I’ve just fired up a new VM host (Dell 2950 V3, 2x Quad 2.66GHz chips and 16GB memory, 4x300GB SAS 15k disks RAID5) and installed Microsoft Small Business Server in