To clarify: FreeSWITCH doesn't need so much resources such that it needs to run standalone.

However, as with virtualization... voip calls are meant to be real time and require real time processing. 

E.g. if you're running a ptime of 20 (the norm, it seems) that means there are 50 packets for each channel each second.

Therefore, if the machine is busy for just 20ms and FS can't process that packet (on every channel!), stuff starts to happen. So running standalone it's more about rock-solid stability rather than just having, on average, enough CPU.

-Avi

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Robert-IPhone <rhuddleston@gmail.com> wrote:

I would never share roles with voip. Unless you are running a 2 line office ;)


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On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Bzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:14:15 -0400
> Brian Foster <bdfoster@endigotech.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to suggest that you should be doing HA and
>> load balancing between atleast two servers when dealing with that
>> kind of traffic. Its hard for me to justify putting all that
>> traffic on one server. Just food for thought. Depending on how
>> many calls you want to risk losing at any given time, your machine
>> specs might be much lower than expected.
>
> I hijack (a bit) this thread: with much lower needs than Alex (let's
> say for an average size SME's PBX), shall FS perform well on a
> machine that is already a svr for other things (lets says, e-mail,
> IM, files (samba), etc, or does it need to be on a stand alone?
> (in any case w/ its own Ethernet I/F)
>
> JY
> --
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