[Asterisk-Users] server hardware

[William Boehlke]

We ship multiple Dell servers every week. Haven't tested the new cards but
generally you're fine with Digium T1 if you limit yourself to one card per
server. When we are less than T1, we use an external SIP gateway.
 
Redundency depends on your attitude towards cost and risk. If you have
bandwidth and the expertise to have the servers fail over to one another,
your servers can provide redundency if you use an n+1 strategy. If the
servers need to stand on their own, you are replacing very expensive Nortel
with very cheap hardware so why stint on an extra $300 power supply and RAID
1?
 
 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Pukepail
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:32 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] server hardware


I was wondering what the concusses is for building a server for asterisk, we
are looking at installing it in about 7 locations (all within an hour of
each other).  I prefer Dell servers, but have seen there is some
incompatibility with digium hardware. ( HYPERLINK
"http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility"http://www.digium.com/in
dex.php?menu=compatibility), anyone have any results using Dell servers?  
 
Also what are the opinions as far as redundancy, should I go full bore with
dual power supplies, hardware raid, RHEL, etc?  Looking at our existing
phone system (nortel and norstar), they do not have redundant power supplies
and the voicemail harddrive isn't raid'ed, would definately be cheaper to go
with a regular PC and Fedora (and keep a spare one on the shelf), just
curious what others have done.. 


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