

These are the Requirements for a Single-Server VM with up to 50 users: In this Blog article, we are using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on VMware vSphere 6.0U2. In the last step, you can check if everything is correct, and press finish if so: Change it to VMXNET3 if it wasn’t already there Change the SCSI Controller to VMware Paravirtual, and double-check if the Network Adapater is already on VMXNET3. In the step Customize Settings, you need to pay more attention. Zimbra doesn’t recommend RAID5 or SATA, but you can find much more information about this on the Performance Tuning Guidelines Wiki.

Remember that Zimbra is read/write intensive, so please choose the fastest Datastore in your environment. In this step, please select the Datastore where Zimbra will be installed. For the Guest OS Familiy choose Linux, and last for Guest OS version choose Ubuntu 64-bit. Type a name for the VM, and select the compatibility, in this case ESXi 6.0. We will create the VM with vmxnet3 for Networking and pvscsi for the Disk Controller.įirst step to create the VM, select the first option and press Next: On this Blog post, we are going to use a VM on VMware and all the best practices from VMware for a high-use workload.

Hello guys, in this Blog post we will cover the installation of the latest Zimbra Collaboration 8.7 Release on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, using dnsmasq as a DNS Server.Īs this Blog post can be a bit long, you might find this menu useful: By Jorge de la Cruz on in PowerTips – Admins, Zimbra Server
