As others have mentioned, I know that Shoretel, Cisco and any Asterisk solution can be virtualized. Shoretel claims to only support VMWare. I don't know about Cisco and Asterisk claims nothing, being an open source project. (Digium might offer true VM support, I don't know.)
3cx looks awesome/cheap, which lures me. It appears to run well on any VM. YMMV. I'd recommend you find the phone system that does what you want/need first, then worry about redundancy or virtualization. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:56:53 -0800 Subject: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine > We are looking at replacing our phone system. This has got me thinking > about VIOP systems and being a sys admin who maintains our current phone > system (for the most part) has got me thinking about phone system > redundancy. I have a desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual > machines, if possible. I just don't know if such things exist and was > wondering if any of you guys had any info about such systems. We have about > 150 phones in two locations two PBXs and one central voice-mail/auto > attendant. Venders I've spoke with so far just want to offer newer versions > of what we already have. I want something more redundant and easier to > bring up again in case of disaster. Thanks for any replies. > > James > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin