[asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

[Michiel van Baak]

On 23:28, Wed 20 Jan 10, Felix Tiefenthaler wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've been reading this list for a few weeks and now this is my first  
> post. :-)
> 
> I'm planning to build a new VoIP telephone system at our company. It's  
> just a small company with not more than 3-4 employees.
> The telephone system is not so important for us because each employee  
> has it's own mobile phone.
> 
> Because our company is a small one, we don't want to/we can't buy an  
> expensive phone system. So we are going to use Asterisk.
> Additionally we don't want to obtain extra hardware. We have already a  
> Server running with Linux (for Network monitoring).
> Because it's a waste to use this Server just for monitoring I thought  
> about virtualizing. Now I want to run a machine with monitoring
> and a machine with Asterisk on this Server. I already bought a ISDN  
> Card (berofix 400) with a S0 module.
> 
> Now my big question: What kind of virtualization should I run on the  
> Server? I have already used VMware ESXi and Proxmox.
> It would be very nice if there was a way to make snapshots (for  
> "backup" purposes).
> I read about clock problems (physical time != virtual time) and so on.  
> If I'm right this does not matter when using OpenVZ but when using  
> KVM, XEN, ESX, ...
> 
> Please tell me your opinion. I definitely want to run the Asterisk via  
> virtualization - so we have to find a solution for this ;-)

Forget about virtualization!
This system is running linux as base os (I conclude by the tone of your
mail)
Just install asterisk on it besides the monitoring software and be done
with it.
What do you gain by running virtualisation on it ? Nothing.

snapshots are not bound to virtualisation. Just redo the box with lvm
and you can make snapshots with that.

Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job
it's a major pain in the ass and makes stuff bork beyond imagination.

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