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Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Gergo Csibra wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Forget about virtualization!
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap="">Well. Why do you use computer? There're slide-rule. You can calculate
anything with that...
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Pretty crappy analogy. Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean
it is production ready. But then the OP said it wasn't all that
important, so I would say go Xen and tell us how it works out. I think
you will only have trouble with conferencing, and maybe not even then if
the machine is beefy enough and unloaded. Monitoring servers are usually
pretty unloaded.
I'm playing a lot with OpenVZ, but you won't have access to your PSTN
hardware... at least I haven't been able to make that part work.
j
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Asterisk and monitoring are time sensitive applications. VM's are not
good canidates for these types of services. Go to the MRTG discussions
and you will get the same answer, stay away from VM. The time shift
that VM's introduce cause huge issues when mapping time sensitive
data. <br>
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And Asterisk is time sensitive. A webserver or database server are not
time sensitive applications where time shifts of a few milliseconds are
not noticed. But with Asterisk if the time is shifting 20 or 30 ms
frequently, it will cause all sorts of issues.<br>
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Use VM's where and when useful. This scenerio is not a good candiate
for virtualization.<br>
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Lyle<br>
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