I met with a prospective client yesterday and he was walking me through their current setup and needs. Runs a small office with 53 staff all at one location. They're Office 365 enabled and don't have any onsite servers except for 1 Synology DS918+ NAS. This is where the "interesting" part comes in.
They use the NAS for Active Directory services (Active Directory Server package) and the obvious file sharing services and I've definitely seen that before, but they also have a FreePBX VM running in Synology Virtual Machine Manager. I didn't get to login since they're not a client yet, this was just an intro meeting, but he did show me the documentation that the guy who did the setup provided to him.
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FreePBX installed as a VM on Synology DS918+
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8GB RAM on the NAS (2GB allocated to FreePBX)
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Snapshots of the VM that are replicated to an offsite DS918+ (at owner's house)
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Config backups of FreePBX being saved to a local folder on the NAS and included in the nightly remote DS918 location
He says they have about 70 extensions configured including conference and meeting rooms, etc, and haven't had any problems at all with this setup. He even had the conversation with the guy who did the setup about whether they should host it as a VPS or have a local FreePBX and he deliberately chose the local install because it was more important that the internal people could continue to use their phones across the 3 floors of the building. They have a route to a cell phone at reception in the event of internet or connectivity issues with VoIP provider.
I knew Synology could do this but haven't run into anyone who actually used the Virtual Machine Manager. Anyone else see a similar setup elsewhere?
