[asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

[Connor Spiess]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Felix Tiefenthaler [mailto:tiefenthaler.f at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:29 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation
>
>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 ;-)
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>felix

OpenVZ seems to work well. I have a customer with an Asterisk server in a production environment running in OpenVZ. I am aware of many other Asterisk servers running in OpenVZ without a problem.
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