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
Hm. 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 _______________________________________________ -- 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
