[asterisk-users] Multitenant or Multiple virtual machines

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Thanks for the prompt response. I apologize if my message came the  
wrong way. The objective of my message was to know whether anyone  
used multiple instances of asterisk (10-20) within virtual machines  
and how well it behaves under that scenario. I know there are many  
people using single-tenant and multi-tenant versions of asterisk  
management and billing packages, but I don't really know if anyone is  
using it within virtual machines and how well that scales. I wouldn't  
mind trying it, but since it will probably involve having to purchase  
multiple software licenses, we want to avoid the $ expense (although  
we don't mind spending our time researching and testing) if it may  
not work properly.

Thanks again

On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Steve Totaro wrote:

> lists at infoway.net wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We want to offer hosted PBX services to some of our clients (maybe
>> 10-20) and were wondering if it makes sense to get a software package
>> capable of handling multiple virtual tenants or if we should just
>> create multiple virtual machines in our server each running a single-
>> tenant license of the software.
>>
>> We have been researching virtual PBX software for asterisk for a
>> couple of weeks and the number of solutions that we found that can
>> handle multi-tenant needs are limited and even the ones available can
>> not do everything some of our clients need. On the other side, there
>> is a large quantity of single-tenant packages out there which seem
>> more "feature-complete" than the multi-tenant versions we have found.
>>
>> Since we're not going to be doing any transcoding and using only SIP
>> (no IAX or ZAP channels), we started pondering about the virtual
>> machine solution (small number of extensions and simultaneous calls;
>> we don't expect the number of simultaneous calls to exceed 50). Would
>> you guys recommend it? The only thing disadvantage we have thought of
>> so far is that when a client happens to call a number that is hosted
>> by one of the other clients, the call may end up going up to the SIP
>> carrier and back down to us, unless we carefully setup something like
>> DUNDi, which we have no experience with and we don't know if these
>> single-tenant packages even handle DUNDi setup thru their web
>> management interface.
>>
>> Any opinions/comments/recommendations? Before anyone recommends just
>> buying the virtual PBX service from someone else, we _really_ want to
>> do this in-house :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
> Then try it in-house.  It should not take too long to setup and use  
> SIPP
> to test.  It sounds like you have already made up your mind, so stop
> wasting time and try it.  Then post your results back to the list.
>
> Since you do not list the shortcomings of the products you have looked
> at, I am afraid that making any recommendations is impossible.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
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