[Asterisk-Users] fault tolerant asterisk system

[Matt]

mmm one other thought.. the load balancing switch needs to support A)
failover and B) stream assocciation (so that it keeps you on the same
* server as long as you are sending packets!)

On Apr 5, 2005 8:25 AM, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would say if you want true redundancy.. rsync your files on each
> system.. have RAID on each system, and use a load balancing switch.
> 
> Incidentally... infocus@?  Nortel? (eek did I just utter a bad word?)
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> On Apr 5, 2005 7:53 AM, Infocus <infocus at todave.com> wrote:
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> > I am looking to create an asterisk system with failover in case one asterisk
> > box fails.
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> > Current hardware:
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> > 2 asterisk boxes (P3 950mhz gateway server and an older dell) w/128MB RAM
> > each, latest release of asterisk/centos.
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> > 1 RAID5 server with 2 SATA HD's
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> > Goals:
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> >  I want Asterisk to take over active calls when one server fails.  I may
> > want to store data (config files, voice mail, etc.) on the RAID server.
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> > What do you all think about this arrangement… my only concern is if my RAID
> > server goes down, both asterisk clones become unusable. Would I be better
> > off storing files on one asterisk box and then rsync with a cron job every 1
> > minute?  Would it be better to have both servers running at the same time
> > and processing calls, with the data stored on the server?
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> > A side question would be: if one asterisk box got overloaded with calls,
> > could it roll over to the second box?
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> >  Thanks for the advice/opinions, in advance!
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