[asterisk-users] Asterisk in VMWare, how does it perform and what is the limit?

[James Lamanna]

>On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, James Lamanna<jlamanna at 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