[asterisk-users] Multitenant or Multiple virtual machines

[Edgar Guadamuz]

A question..... are the clients going to be able to manage the PBX? or
are you going to give them the PBX service without access to each
server?



On 9/6/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:38:40PM +0100, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
> > Any opinions/comments/recommendations? Before anyone recommends just
> > > buying the virtual PBX service from someone else, we _really_ want to
> > > do this in-house :)
> >
> > I am all for using VPS (virtual private servers) instead of the "classic"
> > multitenant.
> >
> > Here are some reasons:
> >
> > - a VPS provides a Linux environment to each client. This is a big plus for
> > some clients knowing they are not "boxed"
> >
> > - Any custom development, new features can be easily applied to individual
> > clients VPSes without destroying/affecting other clients. Remember, these
> > clients must have their phone lines up in order to trade :)
> >
> > - Firmware updates, bug fixes failures etc, will not affect other tenants.
>
> But have to be tested and applied separately to each one => more work.
>
> >
> > - I can move clients VPS to another server, another data centre across the
> > world if necessary with a couple commands.
> >
>
> > - One can allocate specific resources to each tenant. This is very important
> > for call centres for example.
>
> Allocating resources means that the global pool, which is normally not
> used, can't easily be shared. This can be a pain. Deviding the memory of
> a 2GB server between 8 tenants gives you 8 258MB servers.
>
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