Hi Jim, Thanks for the feedback.
I was interested in running PBX-in-A-Flash distro with Freepbx 2.5. They want a mini call center of 15 agents initially and then scale up in a few months, potentially adding a second PRI. You had suggested going with 2 servers, one used as a hot standby...would you suggest something like a quad port redfone fonebridge2? http://www.red-fone.com/fonebridge2.html Recommendations on motherboards would be great. Thanks, Elliott > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:04 AM > To: Elliott Jeyaseelan > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Supermicro system + centos 5.x + > sangoma A102D > > 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 > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [email protected] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > > > > > > 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 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > > commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
