On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:

> >> Is it possible to have two sipx servers sharing one stand alone vm
> >> server? I basically want to run two locations with the same user
> >> accounts on each but need to make sure that vm is always available.
>
> > How does having one voicemail server improve availability?
>
> That part does not but no matter how I cut it, if I use multiple systems,
> users need access to their vm.
>
> > As long as your two locations have a reliable non-NATed network
> > connection between them, you can do this as a single sipXecs distributed
> > installation.
>
> My application involves ALL remote users. I know I can use asterisk, and I
> do, but I prefer the sipx method, media flows end to end other than vm, etc.
> That is a much more powerful solution especially when it comes to video
> conferencing.
>
> The problem with the sipx distributed method is that it's not really a
> distributed system, it's really just a way of expanding capacity of the
> system. The main node always has to be in play otherwise, everything goes
> down.
>

Not necessarily.  Just the services that that node is responsible for. Just
because sipXconfig is unavailable, it doesn't mean that everything stops, it
just means you can't make changes.

>
> So, having a primary in one location, secondary machines in other
> locations, all via reliable non NAT networking still doesn't give me the
> redundancy I need to achieve. No matter how many secondary machines I have,
> there is always the problem of non of them being usable if the primary goes
> down. What I need is redundancy.
>
> The only way this seems possible is to have two sets of machines with
> identical accounts on both but then there is the matter of VM. Users will
> have their vm on one or the other system which is why I hoped there might be
> a way to either have two vm servers in sync or stand alone.
> While this might not mean HA on the vm side, it's something to work with at
> least which gets me closer to redundancy.
>
> For months, I've been trying to come up with a solution for this problem.
> Easy enough to have a redundant front end using SBC's but the sipx side
> eludes me. My primary need has been redundancy which is what I badly need.
>
> Mike
>
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