[asterisk-users] OT - Which rackable case for mini-ITX boards ?

[Michael Graves]

Just about anything bootable will serve you well enough. My home office
is presently running of an HP T5700 thin client (1 GHz transmeta CPU,
256 MB RAM, 256 MB Flash DOM) running Astlinux. Cheap, diskless,
fanless, silent, cool, reliable. Almost perfect IMHO.

It's connected to a snom m3 system, 6 Polycom & Aastra SIP phones, and
one lowly Sipura SPA-2002. We don't have any POTS lines so no FXO card
anymore. I did have a TDM400p at one point.

Michael Graves

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:38:26 +0100 (BST), --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:

>Gordon,
>
>I have decided to ditch using Xen for Asterisk and build a separate server.  It will be used in the home office and this rack case looks great as I am going to get a small comms cabinet.  We will be using a TDM400P to bring PSTN to the server, plus we have a few SNOM M3 phones around the house and in our offices.
>
>Would the CN1300 be capable for this ? and how much memory do you put in your servers ?  Is that case capable of taking two SATA drives which I can then mirror ? or do you save any VMs etc to a separate server ?
>
>Regards,
>
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>----- "Gordon Henderson" <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
>
>> What processor do you need? ie. how many extensions/calls/PCI
>> interface
>> 
>> cards - and additional back-end stuff like MySQL, AGI, etc.... ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And what country are you in (although I'm guessing switzerland from
>> those
>> 
>> domains).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I've built many with this combo: (from the UK, so you might be OK
>> ordering
>> 
>> from .ch, or find a local supplier)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10902
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> + PSU + VIA CN1300 mobo + 1 PCI card...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 230mm deep, so fits into small office "comms cabinets" rather than
>> needing
>> 
>> full racks, however I limit the CN1300's to 120 extensions - you might
>> 
>> need more, or have other stuff like MySQL, etc. running so might want
>> a
>> 
>> beefier processor... (I don't run MySQL, or any other fancy AGI, etc.
>> and
>> 
>> I do build a custom system, kernel & apps. targetted at the processor
>> 
>> which runs entirely in RAM)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I've also used this:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10403
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> which can take 2 PCI cards via a riser, but I wasn't happy with it's
>> 
>> performance - tried both Digium TDM400 ISDN30 cards at the same time,
>> but
>> 
>> the ISDN card kept on losing IRQs and due to time contraints, never
>> had
>> 
>> the time to get to the bottom of it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gordon
>> 
>> 
>> 
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