Hi, I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before needing to upgrade: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241 475-1121486.html Questions: 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and Asterisk for example) 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two processors (to start, simply for redundancy). 3) When installing the OS (CentOS is what I generally use) should I install it 64 bits or 32 bits? (does it even matter for Asterisk?) I will possibly be running a very little used Apache and FTP server. The only notable thing running with Asterisk will be MySQL for CDR and other dialplan data. Regards, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090319/5983d991/attachment.htm
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Mike wrote:> Hi, > > > > I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been > leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant > as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before > needing to upgrade: > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241 > 475-1121486.html >You can reliably run asterisk on just about any x86 hardware. You don't mention what kind of stresses you are going to put on it, so your sizing questions are impossible to answer. How many extensions? How many simultaneous calls? Will you be transcoding? Routing to/from the PSTN? What cards will you be putting in the box? Some cards don't play nicely together if forced to share interrupts, for example.> Questions: > > 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and > Asterisk for example) > > 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two > processors (to start, simply for redundancy).I'm shooting from the hip here, but I don't think dual CPU gives you redundancy. If one chip fries I am pretty sure the machine will crash.> > 3) When installing the OS (CentOS is what I generally use) should I install > it 64 bits or 32 bits? (does it even matter for Asterisk?)Totally depends on what you are planning to do with this box. If you are running for a small office with a handful of extensions and a couple of analog POTS lines, you could potentially use a Celeron with 128MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive (I have a few of these running myself!). If you are planning to serve several hundred simultaneous calls you have a lot more to think about. j
i am very far away to be an expert in my experience i prefer to use a cluster of normal computers instead of an expensive one. if one go down you can trhow it and buy a new one any where very fast. using opensip and *Heartbeat* you you can have an failsafe system. dive in the mailing list archive in February a very nice user sent an email about how to do load balancing using opensip. regards David 2009/3/19 Mike <list at virtutel.ca>> Hi, > > > > I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been > leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant > as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before > needing to upgrade: > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241475-1121486.html > > > > Questions: > > 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and > Asterisk for example) > > 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two > processors (to start, simply for redundancy). > > 3) When installing the OS (CentOS is what I generally use) should I install > it 64 bits or 32 bits? (does it even matter for Asterisk?) > > > > I will possibly be running a very little used Apache and FTP server. The > only notable thing running with Asterisk will be MySQL for CDR and other > dialplan data. > > > > Regards, > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- (\__/) (='.'=)This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(")signature to help him gain world domination. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090319/4d9e7a3a/attachment.htm
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Mike wrote:> Hi, > > I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been > leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant > as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before > needing to upgrade: > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241 > 475-1121486.htmlHm. Expensive, but ...> Questions: > > 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and > Asterisk for example) > > 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two > processors (to start, simply for redundancy).xxx-CORE. Both cores in the same physical chip. The chances of one failing and the other not... slim, I reckon, and while Linux does have support for hot-plug CPUs, I doubt it's intended to work at the chip level like that.> 3) When installing the OS (CentOS is what I generally use) should I install > it 64 bits or 32 bits? (does it even matter for Asterisk?)Use the one you are most familair with.> I will possibly be running a very little used Apache and FTP server. The > only notable thing running with Asterisk will be MySQL for CDR and other > dialplan data.The hardware is overkill for that. For that price you can get 2 Atom motherboards and run them in Linux HA mode if you want redundancy. Gordon