[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk + XEN does it make sense?

[Paul]

Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I was wondering if anybody had tried running Asterisk inside
> virtualization software such as Xen. Are there known problems doing it?
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel.
>
I have been running several asterisk xen servers for a few months now.
Problems would depend on what you plan to do. I do know that I have
tested it with 6 channels g729 transcoded on a 96mb xen virtual and it
still worked. I do all my agi development and testing on virtuals. It's
so easy to build and rebuild test servers this way. It also provides an
easy way to revert to a snapshot. If you suspect that 1.2.x has a new
bug you can quickly switch back to the previous setup to verify that.

I should also mention that I am using xen for some client ecommerce
stuff. It provides a means where we can have redundancy at affordable
costs. I have virtual servers spread over 3 data centers this way.