Chris Bagnall wrote:
...or if your
asterisk server is also a file server (which should never be
done)
I know I'm attracting flames for disagreeing, but sometimes when you're
dealing with small business customers there simply isn't the budget to have
separate machines for doing x, y and z, and often one finds the asterisk
server is the only *nix box on-site. That makes it an ideal box to use for
light file serving duties:
1) linux RAID1 support is pretty good, so you've got reasonable data
integrity without having to fork out for separate RAID controllers
2) samba works fairly well as a domain controller
3) you aren't buying another windows licence
Of course, in an ideal world you'd have a separate box as a file server, but
even in that instance, the asterisk box makes a good choice for storing
backups to (especially if they're scheduled late at night from workstations)
when the phones are unlikely to be in use.
I suspect that having a separate box would be cheaper in the long run
than buying switches that support QoS and then maintaining them.
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