For 150 phones I would suggest you dedicate a machine, mebbe a Core 2 Duo. Voice quality on virtualized platforms is troublesome, hence not recommended for production usage.
Home usage for less then 2-5 phones it works perfectly fine in virtualized env. Regards, Mitul Limbani, Chief Architech & Founder, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 110 Reena Complex, Opp. Nathani Steel, Vidyavihar (W), Mumbai - 400 086. India http://www.enterux.com/ http://www.entvoice.com/ email: [email protected] DID: +91-22-61447605 Cell: +91-9820332422 On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Hiers, Richard < [email protected]> wrote: > A point of clarification. The “get started video” on asterisk.org says > that running asterisk on a virtual platform is a popular option. “Go for > it!” the presenter says. However, the 2011 third edition of Asterisk, The > Definitive Guide says they don’t recommend it for production use, though > many do so successfully. I also don’t find may recent discussions of this > topic online. **** > > ** ** > > I don’t expect to need to use any special hardware, just a sip trunk over > our broadband connection. We have about 150 phones at present. Is ESX a > viable platform for us? And second, what is the recommended virtual > configuration (mem, cpu, etc.)? Any other considerations?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > ** ** > > Richard Hiers > Director of IT Services > Covenant Theological Seminary > > ** > > ** ** > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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