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, select the datastore where Zimbra will be installed. For the Guest OS Familiy, choose Linux, and 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. In this blog post, we use a VM on VMware and all the best practices from VMware for a high-use workload. OS configuration for Zimbra Collaborationġ.Creating the VM on VMware ESXi (vmxnet3 y pvscsi).Creating the VM on VMware ESXi (vmxnet3 y pvscsi).This blog post is a bit long, so you might find this menu useful: If you are looking for multi-server installation steps, please visit our official guide. These steps cover a single-server installation. In this blog post we will cover the installation of the latest Zimbra Collaboration 8.8 Network Edition release on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, using dnsmasq as a DNS Server. By Jorge de la Cruz on Januin PowerTips – Admins, Zimbra Server
