[asterisk-users] OpenVZ with asterisk 13

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On 04/07/2015 10:48 AM, Johan Wilfer wrote:
> Den 2015-04-07 15:41, Ikka Tirtawidjaja skrev:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Is anyone has experience making Asterisk server with virtual server
>> OPEN-VZ (in proxmox 3.4 box) ?
>>
>> My boss want to build a production server with it, and it will have +/-
>> 300 sip user (concurrent call maybe < 150 call)
>>
>
> As long as you don't overload the server it works great. I've used 
> OpenVZ to separate Asterisk instances from each other. For my 
> application (mostly conferencing) I can put ~ 350 concurrent calls on 
> a single HP Xeon server.
>
> OpenVZ is not really like KVM but more like Solaris containers or BSD 
> jails. Docker is mostly using the same Kernel api:s that OpenVZ uses, 
> but OpenVZ also has some cusom stuff.
>
> If you need Dahdi you will need to give the VE's access to these 
> devices, there are articles out there that explain how this is done.
>
> Good luck!
>

We use LXC (what is under Docker) instead of OpenVZ to separate asterisk 
instances, and when Dahdi is needed I typically run an asterisk instance 
"on the host" and have SIP trunks between the container and the host 
instances.

Cheers,

j