I am thinking of going with a Dell PowerEdge 1950 ||| for a new CentOS/Asterisk set up. It will have dual 2.33GHz processors, 16GB memory, two 500GB hard drives (presumably mirrored). I also plan to get a Digium TE220B to go with it. (a non-dell server is not an option, but I am wondering if there is a better one to consider) The system will be a voice mail repository for 4-6,000 students. Each time a voice mail is left, an email notification will be sent to the student. The email notification will provide a web link to direct the student to the voice mail itself. Anything I need to consider changing? I'm interested in any feedback you are willing to provide. Many thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080428/dbb73278/attachment.htm
The 2 Port card may not provide the number of channels you may need to do this. I would bump it up to a four port. I would also look at more HD space. You are fine on RAM memory, if you need to for budget constraints I would be OK with dropping the RAM and upping the Hard Drive Space. 2-4 GB of ram is PLENTY... What are you interfacing with and how (RBS T1, PRI). How are you planning on managing the user accounts? Are you building a web interface. One simple way although it would break the Directory application is to create All the possible mailbox numbers and then create aliases in your email program to route them. IE VMBox email real email 12345 12345 at emailgateway bsmith at mail.plymouth.edu Of you could build a Dialplan application that uses LDAP and query the database. I am not sure on your network setup so I can't really give you specifics only hints... Alex ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eve-Ellen Cole Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:21 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] Dell 1950 I am thinking of going with a Dell PowerEdge 1950 ||| for a new CentOS/Asterisk set up. It will have dual 2.33GHz processors, 16GB memory, two 500GB hard drives (presumably mirrored). I also plan to get a Digium TE220B to go with it. (a non-dell server is not an option, but I am wondering if there is a better one to consider) The system will be a voice mail repository for 4-6,000 students. Each time a voice mail is left, an email notification will be sent to the student. The email notification will provide a web link to direct the student to the voice mail itself. Anything I need to consider changing? I'm interested in any feedback you are willing to provide. Many thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080428/1aad20f3/attachment.htm
i suggest a look at digium's hardware compatibility list on thier website. i would also worry about concurrent calls & thus concurrent recordings, 48 with your actual card which i guess is acceptable load to your hardware but i am not an expert in this. recording to disk (even scsi ones) will make your server unstable when lots of calls are being recorded, then your option is to record to RAM (or go for OrecX). then empty RAM to disk when load is low since you've got plenty of RAM. gsm conversion will lower the size of wav recordings by 10. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080428/c905754d/attachment.htm
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Eve-Ellen Cole <ecole at mail.plymouth.edu> wrote:> > > > > I am thinking of going with a Dell PowerEdge 1950 ||| for a new > CentOS/Asterisk set up. It will have dual 2.33GHz processors, 16GB memory, > two 500GB hard drives (presumably mirrored). I also plan to get a Digium > TE220B to go with it. (a non-dell server is not an option, but I am > wondering if there is a better one to consider) > > > > The system will be a voice mail repository for 4-6,000 students. Each time > a voice mail is left, an email notification will be sent to the student. > The email notification will provide a web link to direct the student to the > voice mail itself. > > > > Anything I need to consider changing? I'm interested in any feedback you > are willing to provide. Many thanks!I don't use Dells except in pure VoIP setups. I found this link http://www.gomiem.org/conferences/TC08_9_ip_telephony.pdf I think the newer Digium cards play MUCH better with Dell now. Take a look at CSID configuration 1. It seems they use it as their platform so I would take that as a good sign. Thanks, Steve Totaro
Eve-Ellen Cole wrote:> I am thinking of going with a Dell PowerEdge 1950 ||| for a new > CentOS/Asterisk set up. It will have dual 2.33GHz processors, 16GB > memory, two 500GB hard drives (presumably mirrored). I also plan to get > a Digium TE220B to go with it. (a non-dell server is not an option, but > I am wondering if there is a better one to consider) > > The system will be a voice mail repository for 4-6,000 students. Each > time a voice mail is left, an email notification will be sent to the > student. The email notification will provide a web link to direct the > student to the voice mail itself. > > > > Anything I need to consider changing? I?m interested in any feedback > you are willing to provide. Many thanks! >If you're not restricted to 1U, I would strongly suggest getting more drives and doing a raid 10 array. Even if you are restricted to 1U, you can do a raid 10 array in the 1950, but you'll have to pay for the hyper-expensive 2.5" drives. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com