I’m running the the standard Centos 5.6 install on PIAF. However, when run on a Core i3 machine or even the 4-year old dual core laptop I’m using at home, it appears to work flawlessly. For example, when I tried it on an atom powered machine running Win 7 Starter, the system had trouble when I did a page to the entire house (11 local phones, with 2 remote phones over VPN). There’s no doubt that running it through a VMWare requires more resources. And that’s on a four year old Dual Core Sony Laptop that came with Windows Vista. I’ve tested my home unit with as many as 10 calls to various Podlinez services all transferred to the conference bridge, and then I checked my voicemail, with no issues. We use the VMWare simply for convenience - its incredibly easy to backup a VMware machine, and VMware’s shared folders The doctor’s office uses brand new HP Laptops running Win 7 64-bit. They use both SIP trunking and Media Gateways to interface with the POTS lines. I have PIAF running Asterisk 1.4.41 in 4 doctor’s offices and in my home on VMware player with no issues whatsoever. I have installed and tested almost every FreePBX distro that is released, none have failed to install.

I run at the moment eight (8) FreePBX installs on ESXI on an old dual core Asus motherbpard, 8 Gb of memory and 750 Gb harddisk. compatible with paid editions of vSphere. Typical Use Cases Test & Dev Production, Test & DevĬentralized Management Option No Yes, if upgraded to paid editions of vSphere ESXI installs on your computer and ERASES all disk to install it’s own operating system.įrom VMware’s FAQ: VMware Server VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXI)Īrchitecture Hosted, installs as an application on the OS Installs bare metal, OS independent All you have to do is to register to get a FREE license key.

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