Introduction to Deployment of Zimbra mail servers

1. Hardware Requirements

CPU:INTEL/AMD CPU 2.4GHz Number: 1

Memory: 4G Number: 2 x 2G or 1 x 4G

The official minimum demand:

INTEL/AMD CPU 1.5GHz Number: 1

1G RAM (server running consumes more than 900 megabytes, free memory close to 0)

Hard disk: 3 x 300G (do RAID5, usable 600G)

Raid Card:

Power supply: Redundant dual power supply best

2. System Requirements

Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4 32, 64 bits can be

(Optional range: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4)

Package Selection Customization at installation (Add the development tools package)

3. Zoning programme

/boot 2-3G

Swap 2~3g

/80G

/tmp 50G

/home 50G

/var 120G

/opt 600G (must have this partition)

4. Pre-environment

1). DNS completes a record and MX, pointing to mail host

2). Edit/etc/hosts File

ipaddr mail.example.com Mail

3). Installation of Zcs (fool process)

4). Management and use

https://mail.example.com:7071

Web Access: mail.example.com

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