[asterisk-users] Asterisk on Xen or Dedicated

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Dee Lowndes <mailinglist at asyouneed.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>     I am trying to decide weather to move my asterisk setup on to a Xen
>  setup or not. I do use transcoding, meetme and music on hold although in a
>  purely sip scenario real lines are handled via cisco kit. Currently its a
>  dedicated box with X100P card for timing handling it however it's starting
>  to get a bit long in the tooth and I want to replace it. I currently handle
>  up to 45 simultaneous calls but this will be doubling in the next year.
>
>  Question is do I still need to worry about timing and if so can this be
>  resolved in a Xen enviroment?
>
>  One other question is how does multi cpu's scale is it better to have a
>  highspeed dual core or a lower speed quad core?
>
>  Any pointers greatly appreciated.
>
>  Dee

Just shooting from the hip but if you have the ability to use a
dedicated box for Asterisk, then go that route.

Xen has a very high cool factor and may work OK with Asterisk but why
take the chance unless it is just a dev environment?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro