13 thoughts on - OpenVZ With Asterisk 13

• Why not use just one single box and create 300 sip clients having 150 odd con calls. OpenVZ might not be a good idea for this sort of volume.

  Mitul

• 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) Is it good to go, or not ? I really hope someone who have experience with it willing to share with me… Thanks in advance… Best Regards, Ikka – Jakarta, Indonesia

• Dear Mitul,

  I already told my boss about it, I really want a single box, no virtual, but my boss insist. He said that openvz use less resource then KVM (or other virtual for cloud). I really need a solid analysis to argue with him.

• Guess we are talking about a callcenter, right?

  If, then use a single machine for it, not a VM. And if you can’t do it, use docker instead OpenVZ for a much better performance.

  Regards

  Guenther Davao City, Philippines, Planet Earth

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• Show him this freaking thread, or else ask him to prove it otherwise.

  We all here have decades of exp dealing with asterisk.

  Mitul

• I have several large customers (200+ extensions) running on vSphere without issue. Not sure about OpenVZ, thought.

  2015-04-07 11:36 GMT-03:00 Mitul Limbani :

• PBX =! CC my friend.

  150 Conc Calls for CC agent is going to be far more expensive then running
  200 extn PBX doing hardly 20 Conc Calls.

  Load is way too diff.

• I guess best way for your boss to learn is to deploy a box once and get bombed and then follow what ppl said here.

  Both modes u should be the happy guy u see, u will get paid twice for same work !!!

  Mitul

• Dear Guenther B.

  This server is not for call center. Its for office and appartment with +/-
  900 sip users.

  The asterisk server will be split to 3 OpenVZ Virtual server in 1 proxmox server (but they will have clustering server in another proxmox server) and
  1 database server (mysql), and it also use OpenVZ – Proxmox server.

  If its for call center with 300 concurrent call, I already have my experience with that situation, that I use 3 server, 1 for asterisk, 1 for database, and 1 for web application.

  Dear Mitul L.

  Yes, I will do that. I dont know why my boss love openvz so much. But he is a stubborn man…

  Thx & best regards…

• Den 2015-04-07 15:41, Ikka Tirtawidjaja skrev:

  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

• With that kind of load, your users shall start complaining about choppy audio or voice clarity on random occasions, and you wont have a clue where to look for the problem.

  Regards, Mitul Limbani, Business Head, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  110 Reena Complex, Opp. Nathani Steel, Vidyavihar (W), Mumbai – 400 086. India http://www.enterux.com/
  http://www.entvoice.com/
  email: mitul@enterux.in DID: +91-22-71967196
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• Den 2015-04-07 20:47, Mitul Limbani skrev:

  That’s another issue thought and is not different on a dedicated server. With proper monitoring of the resources, you can troubleshoot. I’ve found voipmonitor.org to be invaluable in that regard.