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by cwindomsr
Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: Administrators
Topic: Migrating to Zimbra Appliance?
Replies: 11
Views: 3375

Migrating to Zimbra Appliance?

[quote user="bgszim"]Same mission here: Got a Zimbra Network Edition 7.20 on Centos 5. I'm thinking about moving to the Zimbra Appliance when i will do the update to zimbra 8. So basically this would mean: 1) Set up Zimbra Network Edition 7.20 on a Ubuntu 2) Moving Data to this Server 3) I...
by cwindomsr
Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:49 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4
Replies: 17
Views: 47544

Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4

You can obtain the performance metrics for the host using either ESXtop or vCenter. To obtain the performance metrics for the application, you can use the Zimbra performance utilities which use sysstat and other related linux performance utilities. In any case, you have lots of headroom to grown you...
by cwindomsr
Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:03 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4
Replies: 17
Views: 47544

Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4

That's great Mark. I will keep that information for furture reference. What is the total number of users in your environment. What is the mix of server vms?
Cheers
by cwindomsr
Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:58 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4
Replies: 17
Views: 47544

Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4

Mark, You are in fact correct. Follow the appropriate monitoring and data-gathering procedures for determining your organization's messaging requirements. As mentioned in my previous reply, start with a 2vCPU 4GB VM for the LDAP, and MTA VMs. The logger and proxy servers might require less in which ...
by cwindomsr
Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:10 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4
Replies: 17
Views: 47544

Recommendations for Virtualizing Zimbra with VMware vSphere 4

When virtualizing, this really all depends on the hardware layout (NUMA nodes) If the hardware is a 12 core (2x6) then the largest virtual machines would consume a single NUMA node of 6 cores and 24GB of system memory. This would prevent NUMA cross-talk. In the case of today's more powerful processo...