Going from baremetal to VMware server

[MattySmarty]

Hi all,
We have an aging ZImbra server running ZCS v8.7.11 on bare metal. The plan is to upgrade to the latest ZCS 9.x on a VM.

Is there anyone out there who has a good experience moving from physical to virtual infra? Any gotchas to look out for.

~150 mailboxes
~800GB worth of mail.

Current Hardware build:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620
64GB DDR4 ECC
120GB local disk
6x 2TB SSD for /opt

Thanks in advance.

[phoenix]

There should be no problem doing that. I'd suggest you use the ZEXTRAS products to move your ZCS bare metal install to your new, shing VM. Take a look at teh ZEXTRAS wiki for details on how to do a migration of your data to the new server.