Virtualizing FreePBX with Digium TE134F

[threeeye]

A friend told me that the best solution for FreePBX is a Virtual solution
But I have a problem, I have a Digium TE134F PRI card, and I know that VMWare cannot support that.
So he told me that I can split the PBX functions, 1 (physical) for the PRI card, and the 2nd, a Virtual for all the extensions, functions and everything else…

My question is:
Is this a good solution, or should I stay with my physical server (current) ?

Thanks

[dicko]

Personally I prefer

Customer Virtual Server & Trunk Server

We’re moving towards hosting clients. I’m looking at setting up a virtual server to each client, and using a physical box to terminate their land lines at. At this moment we don’t have a T1, just POTS lines. Normally we would restrict the client to use only 1 or 2 channels of the T1, but for now with POTS, is there a way we could restrict the client to use only their dahdi channel?

In effect spliting just dahdi functions on the host.

[mpelchat (Marc Pelchat)]

That is certainly one way of doing it.

There may be a gateway type device that lets you connect your PRI and then connect to your virtual PBX via a network connection. Fuctionally it would be about the same, but you wouldn’t have to support two PBXs, only one with a network attached media gateway.

[dicko]

Again, there is only one pbx involved, the one in the vm.
You could have a 4 port card and four pbx though, you just need four dynamic spans to each mac address which of course would be the ones in your VM’s network interface;-)