Virtualization

Definition

The MX-ONE Service Node (SN) software can execute in a virtualized environment, where the physical server hardware can be shared between several SN call managers.

In a virtualized environment, an abstraction layer, called a hypervisor, is installed between the physical hardware (host server/machine) and the operating system (guest machine). This abstraction layer allows that more than one guest machine co-exist on the same physical hardware, in order to share resources like memory, CPU, etc. These guest machines are commonly referred to as Virtual Machines (VM).

VMWare software and Hyper-v is used as part of the virtualized solution. (KVM, which is included in Linux, is a possible alternative).

Mitel has three VMware software options to run MX-ONE Service Node in a virtualized infrastructure:

• Consolidated setup
• Availability setups with VMware vSphere Availability
• VMware vSphere High Availability
• VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Settings

The virtualization configuration is set up by the administrator.

Procedure and function

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