[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Dell blade servers

[Michael J. Tubby B.Sc (Hons) G8TIC]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Riddell" <matt.riddell at sineapps.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Dell blade servers


> Alistair Cunningham wrote:
>> We've been asked to quote for a large cluster running Asterisk and our
>> ITSP in a box product. The system will be SIP throughout, with mixed
>> codecs.
>>
>> We're considering using Dell blade servers, 1855 or similar, on the
>> grounds that we normally use Dell machines and they work well, but we
>> need higher rack density.
>>
>> Has anyone used these? Any feedback on whether they're
>> good/bad/indifferent? What scalability do you get on simple SIP-SIP
>> forwarding either with or without RTP passing through Asterisk?
>>
>
> I would instead recommend the SuperMicro 1U servers - we have had a really
> great run with these.
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>
> Matt Riddell
>

If you're considering 1U rack servers then also look at the Gigabyte SR147L
(P4 Socket 478) or SR157L (P4 LGA 775) we've deployed over 150 and
had only one PSU failure in 3 years (do use the Western Digital "RAID 
edition"
SATA drives though).

Mike