You don't need all that power.
Just a pair of mirrored drives is all you need for redundancy. Asterisk
doesn't impose nearly enough I/O load to require an expensive drive
array such as that.
And 40 users are very unlikely to use even 50% that PRI at any one time.
That won't be a heavily-loaded system, even if everybody's on the phone
all the time.
You don't need to spend all that money on the server. A core2duo has
more than enough juice to do the job.
Why not buy two less expensive servers, and provision the 2nd one as a
hot standby? That'll give you much more redundancy than just one beefy
server, for probably less money.
CentOS 5.3 runs asterisk well, and Sangoma makes great cards.
Jim
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Elliott Jeyaseelan wrote:
Looking to build a production asterisk server for 40 sip phones and
allstream's PRI.
Anyone willing share their experiences and any gotchas to look out for,
I am looking into Supermicro server with LSI raid control 8204 in a raid
5 configuration.
Any supermicro motherboard recommendation would be helpful.
OS of choice : Centos 5.2 or 5.3
Appreciate your input.
Thanks,
Elliott
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