Hardware Requirements

Asterisk Asterisk General
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I’m looking to install Asterisk, utilizing hosted SIP trunks. Realistically if I were to have 10 extensions, with maybe 4-5 simultaneous calls at the most, what sort of hardware requirements should I be looking at to run this? I don’t want to get some beast for no reason at all, but I also don’t want to go short and have it be a dog. Any advice would be appreciated. And a little insight on what sort of load would I expect to need to increase hardware specs, in terms of growth of call volume/system usage would be appreciated as well.

Thank You,

Brian Mosher

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Howdy,

For that kind of usage, any old x86 system that you’ve got would be fine.

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Great, Thank You. Follow up question: I’m currently running a Zentyal box. Can Asterisk be installed on that machine, or should I / do I need to have it run on its own? I’m kind of a Linux noob, so I’m learning as I go. Thanks.

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This is the most amazing server ever for the price. Although you could run it on less cool hardware, you really can’t beat it. I have several customers on this hardware… big and small.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bedwlr1&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&model_id=poweredge-t110

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That is a great server for the price. I’m still wondering if you can/should run Asterisk on a Zentyal server, or if it should be stand alone.

Thanks.

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No idea if Asterisk can be installed on Zentyal; not familiar with it.

Cheers.