I was wondering what the concusses is for building a server for asterisk, we are looking at installing it in about 7 locations (all within an hour of each other). I prefer Dell servers, but have seen there is some incompatibility with digium hardware. ( http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility), anyone have any results using Dell servers? Also what are the opinions as far as redundancy, should I go full bore with dual power supplies, hardware raid, RHEL, etc? Looking at our existing phone system (nortel and norstar), they do not have redundant power supplies and the voicemail harddrive isn't raid'ed, would definately be cheaper to go with a regular PC and Fedora (and keep a spare one on the shelf), just curious what others have done. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051101/b2d2e87a/attachment.htm
We ship multiple Dell servers every week. Haven't tested the new cards but generally you're fine with Digium T1 if you limit yourself to one card per server. When we are less than T1, we use an external SIP gateway. Redundency depends on your attitude towards cost and risk. If you have bandwidth and the expertise to have the servers fail over to one another, your servers can provide redundency if you use an n+1 strategy. If the servers need to stand on their own, you are replacing very expensive Nortel with very cheap hardware so why stint on an extra $300 power supply and RAID 1? _____ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Pukepail Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:32 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] server hardware I was wondering what the concusses is for building a server for asterisk, we are looking at installing it in about 7 locations (all within an hour of each other). I prefer Dell servers, but have seen there is some incompatibility with digium hardware. ( HYPERLINK "http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility"http://www.digium.com/in dex.php?menu=compatibility), anyone have any results using Dell servers? Also what are the opinions as far as redundancy, should I go full bore with dual power supplies, hardware raid, RHEL, etc? Looking at our existing phone system (nortel and norstar), they do not have redundant power supplies and the voicemail harddrive isn't raid'ed, would definately be cheaper to go with a regular PC and Fedora (and keep a spare one on the shelf), just curious what others have done.. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/153 - Release Date: 11/1/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/153 - Release Date: 11/1/2005 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051101/d5349b96/attachment.htm
Hi Joe, Well, as a practice, we use Intel board based servers in our company. Small servers are usually based on Pentium 4 while bigger ones are based on XEON. In terms of compatibility, I've used Torypine's, Buckner's, ClearWater and the latest VolcanoPeak boards, all exhibited nice performance and compatibility. PSU and the rest are just a matter of funds and how much our client is willing to fork out. Nir S _____ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Pukepail Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:32 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] server hardware I was wondering what the concusses is for building a server for asterisk, we are looking at installing it in about 7 locations (all within an hour of each other). I prefer Dell servers, but have seen there is some incompatibility with digium hardware. ( http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility), anyone have any results using Dell servers? Also what are the opinions as far as redundancy, should I go full bore with dual power supplies, hardware raid, RHEL, etc? Looking at our existing phone system (nortel and norstar), they do not have redundant power supplies and the voicemail harddrive isn't raid'ed, would definately be cheaper to go with a regular PC and Fedora (and keep a spare one on the shelf), just curious what others have done. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051101/19efa90d/attachment.htm
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On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:57 -0400, David Sampson wrote:> Hello ? > > I am curious as to what hardware folks are using successfully from HP > or DELL. I will likely be running just a quad span T1 card with the > system.HP DL380 G4, 4GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS HP DL360 G4, 2GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS Some Dell models may have issues. Check the Digium website for compatibility (and perhaps the list archives). Both HP boxes work fine with 2 or 4 port E1 cards (hyperthreading is turned off). Regards, Patrick
I have setup a Quad T-1 on a Dell 850 but it trunks all calls to a main voip server that is a Dell 2850. We chose to use a Sangoma T-1 card to side step some of the possible problems with motherboards/Dell servers that Patrick mentioned. On 8/16/06, Patrick <asterisk-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:> > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:57 -0400, David Sampson wrote: > > Hello ? > > > > I am curious as to what hardware folks are using successfully from HP > > or DELL. I will likely be running just a quad span T1 card with the > > system. > > HP DL380 G4, 4GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > HP DL360 G4, 2GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > > Some Dell models may have issues. Check the Digium website for > compatibility (and perhaps the list archives). > > Both HP boxes work fine with 2 or 4 port E1 cards (hyperthreading is > turned off). > > Regards, > Patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Bruce Nortex Networks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060816/5eb02c97/attachment.htm
Dell PE 1800s are our standard build. They are tower or Rack capable, have 3
open slots for expansion (2 if you get the remote access card). They are big
though (5U) which is both a good and a bad thing. Good in that they have GREAT
air flow inside the system so there is rarely any concern of overheating Digium
cards. Bad in that they are friggin huge. Realistically though, if comparing
in size to your average Avaya PBX for up to 100 users, than really the size is
about the same.
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Raymond McKay
President
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I will likely be running just a quad span T1 card with the system.
I appreciate your input.
Thanks,
Dave
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> > I am curious as to what hardware folks are using successfully from HP > > or DELL. I will likely be running just a quad span T1 card with the > > system. > > HP DL380 G4, 4GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > HP DL360 G4, 2GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > > Some Dell models may have issues. Check the Digium website for > compatibility (and perhaps the list archives). > > Both HP boxes work fine with 2 or 4 port E1 cards (hyperthreading is > turned off).what are the advantages of turning HT off? btw: i prefer HP servers (above 3xx) because you can do health monitoring really nice (fans, temp, ps status, etc) -- WoodOO-[P]an[G]alaktikan[A]gent-People <][> http://shadow.pganet.com wpeople@shadow.pganet.com]iCQ#33118021[wpeople.on.iRCNet]wpeople@RedHat.users
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:17 +0200, Woodoo People .pGa! wrote:> > > I am curious as to what hardware folks are using successfully from HP > > > or DELL. I will likely be running just a quad span T1 card with the > > > system. > > > > HP DL380 G4, 4GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > > HP DL360 G4, 2GB mem, 2x 146GB U320 in RAID1, dual hotswap PS > > > > Some Dell models may have issues. Check the Digium website for > > compatibility (and perhaps the list archives). > > > > Both HP boxes work fine with 2 or 4 port E1 cards (hyperthreading is > > turned off). > > what are the advantages of turning HT off?Hope I explain this right but although HT creates the notion of 2 processors it still has only one FPU. Any transcoding done on a box with HT turned on will make both processors compete for that one FPU which does not help latency etc. So I just turn it off. If you want good FPU capabilities for transcoding go for an Opteron box. Regards, Patrick