[asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread Dean Collins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/sun_thinner_blades/ this article got me thinking - is anyone running asterisk on blade servers? Any lessons for us to learn? Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph

Re: [asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread dubrowin . 44628913
I was at an Asterisk Conference here in Israel and one of the speakers talked about deploying Asterisk on Blades. They get a double-wide blade that can take PCI cards. They found the blades with external (ie SAN) disks to be more reliable than regular servers. Shlomo --- Asterisk Users

Re: [asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread -- [ UxBoD ] --
Dont expect to put many PCI cards in ;) Blades rock otherwise. On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:17:36 -0400, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/sun_thinner_blades/ this article got me thinking - is anyone running asterisk on blade servers? Any

Re: [asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/sun_thinner_blades/ this article got me thinking - is anyone running asterisk on blade servers? We have a bunch of ibm blades, but the issue at least with the H series cabinets we have is that there is no

Re: [asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Lynchfield
yes we have several of these... you need to use a PCI expensiont slot.. its an addon that piggy backs to a blade and takes 1 u ..so total blade will take 2 u's... but you can hook 2 PCIS on it.. sangoma or whatever... This way we can Redundantly failover 2 PRIS on each other with each blade

Re: [asterisk-users] blades?

2007-06-06 Thread Jon Pounder
Quoting Mike Lynchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: does the piggyback actually require the type T chassis or can it go in the type H chassis ? (I have never been able to see a picture of the pci module so don't know where the card backplanes are - are they out the front of the blade for external