Hi All,
I have decided to purchase a dedicated pc for my Asterisk. Please suggest the suitable specs. From RAM to HDMI and port availabilities. I am from India. Please suggest the cheapest (or a most affordable one in terms of price) yet most compatible pc for running asterisk. Thank you.
with Hope,
Prabhakaran
I have a quad core celeron with 8gb of ram that I run asterisk on.
Actually, I run it inside a Xen VM on that machine with multiple other VMs. Unless you’re handling like, massive call center volumes; you don’t need something stupid powerful to run a few phones.
You can run this on a Raspberry Pi.
A couple of gigs of ram should suffice. You don’t need 64. I do it with 2.
You don’t need HDMI other than to hook a monitor up to do your physical setup. Asterisk’s interface is command line.
You know… I want to relish/test all the latest features of an asterisk server. I know a dedicated PC is an overkill but I just want to have an one. I suspect whether we can utilize all the features asterisk offers us in a raspberry Pi. Looking for more specs. Thanks.
In that case you can probably buy a cheap miniPC based around an N100/N95/whatever and run that. I can’t see any reason something like that wouldn’t let you do everything asterisk does unless you need like PRI or some other kind of physical card.
Ultimately the number of simultaneous calls you handle will determine how much power you need. I’ve never found anything I couldn’t do in a test environment on even a single-core VM.
My host machine is a N5090 with 8GB of ram in a minipc form. The VM I run asterisk on is allocated 2 cores and 2gb of ram. I can do pretty much everything; I just don’t how many simultaneous calls I can do it for. I know it’s at least 47 and the system wasn’t breaking a sweat.
Hi. Thanks for your replies. Let me flashback one thing. I have a Dell Vostro laptop with 8 GB DDR 4 RAM. Once i tried installing centos 9 stream but it kept on crashing all the time. I suspect some issue with my graphics card driver. Like this I don’t want any other issues to arise on the dedicated system which I am planning for. I want that system in all the ways to compatible with.
What limitation have you found with Raspberry? A Raspbery 3, 4, 5 should handle a dozen calls with ease. My first Asterisk host was a 500Mhz (with an ‘m’) Geode and it was never a limitation for my development needs.
I run a VM as my development host.
If you suspect graphics, don’t run a graphic environment. All of my Asterisk hosts are ‘headless.’
BTW, IIRC, all development is now done on Debian based systems now. CentOS has lost ‘favor.’
Hi. Thanks for your reply. Which raspberry Pi model is the best to host the latest version of asterisk…
How steep is the learning curve? Please reply. Thanks.
I thought you had gone past the learning curve after all the responses in Any Asterisk Trainer Here? (Paid) - #25 by shafty
That was in July 2024. 8 months ago. You still stuck on the “learning curve”?
Any multi-core 64 bit model should be fine.
I would suggest using a SATA SSD on a USB adapter to get away from the Micro SD cards. The SD cards work fine for some applications, but for an I/O sensitive application, I’d go with the SSD.
The model 4 and 5 are easier to boot to the SSD.
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