[Asterisk-Users] 2 4-port T1 cards

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:45, Joe Antkowiak wrote:
> >Also, NFS mounting of the voicemail for such a large install is probably
> >not the best idea. Unless you really need it available to another
> >machine, you _may_ want to rethink this idea. NFS can be a major speed
> >hit on a machine, especially if the client is overworked. Also if you
> >are planning on running most all the channels to voicemail, then do you
> >think you are going to be able to have your NFS server keep high speed
> >writing going so as not to slow you asterisk machine down with it's 96
> >channels running full tilt? 
> 
> Well, I have to have some centralized way of storing voicemail that all the
> * boxes can access.  Its either network storage, SAN, or all the * boxes
> with t1 cards do IAX to a central * box that will do all the voicemail.  I
> didn't think I'd have much of a problem getting the nfs box to keep up as
> long as its got enough horsepower (dual cpu, gig NIC, serial ata raid 5+1),
> and if I do, SAN is the next step...
> 
> What do you think?

I think I am not qualified to answer that question, but you are getting
closer to being so qualified now that you are exploring the potential
pitfalls. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>