ZCS Single Server Quick Start, Network Edition 5.0 (Rev November 2008)

System Requirements for Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0

Zimbra Collaboration Suite system requirements for both the Network Edition and the Open Source Edition.

 

	Requirements
Servers	Evaluation and Testing • Intel/AMD 32-bit or 64-bit CPU 1.5 GHz • 1 GB RAM • 5 GB free disk space for software and logs • Temp file space for installs and upgrades* • Additional disk space for mail storage   Production environments • Intel/AMD CPU 32-bit 2.0 GHZ+. For large deployments (more than 2000 users), 64-bit OS is recommended. • Minimum - 2 GB RAM Recommend - 4 GB • Temp file space for installs and upgrades* • 10 GB free disk space for software and logs (SATA or SCSI for performance, and RAID/Mirroring for redundancy) • Additional disk space for mail storage *Temp files space- The zimbra-store requires 5GB for /opt/zimbra, plus additional space for mail storage. The other nodes require 100MB. General Requirements • Firewall Configuration should be set to “No firewall”, and the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) should be disabled • RAID-5 is not recommended for installations with more than 100 accounts.
Mac Server	Evaluation and Testing • Intel Core Solo, or Intel Core Duo* • 1 GB RAM • 5 GB free disk space for software and logs • Additional disk space for mail storage
Mac Server continued	Production environments • Intel Core Solo, or Intel Core Duo* • Minimum - 2 GB RAM Recommend - 4 GB • 10 GB free disk space for software and logs • Additional disk space for mail storage   *There are known issues using ZCS on Macs with the Intel Core Duo. See the Release Note.
Operating System Network Edition	• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, AS/ES 4 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, AS/ES5. (32-bit, 64-bit) • Mac OS® X 10.4.7 Note: Max OS X server installs, the following features are not included: attachment indexing/search, view attachments as HTML, clustering.   • SUSE ES 10 and SUSE ES 10 (64-bit) Note: SUSE server installs, the following features are not included: clustering   • Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS • Ubuntu 8.04 (Beta beginning with 5.0.9) • rPath VMware
Operating System Open Source Edition	In addition to supporting the operating systems listed above for the Network Edition, other OS versions are available for the Open Source Edition. Check the Zimbra Open Source Downloads page on www.zimbra.com.
Other Dependencies	For Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora Core and SuSE operating systems, the server must also have the following installed: • NPTL. Native POSIX Thread Library • Sudo. Superuser, required to delegate admins. • libidn. For internationalizing domain names in applications (IDNA) • cURL. A command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax • fetchmail. A remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility used for on-demand TCIP/IP links. • GMP. GNU Multiple-Precision Library. • compat-libstdc ++-33. Compatibility Standard C++ libraries. NOTE: The 32-bit version of the compat-libstdc rpm package is required for both 32-bit or 64-bit servers. • For Red Hat Enterprise only: compat-libstdc ++-296
	For Mac servers, Java 1.5 must be installed as the default Java.
Miscellaneous	• SSH client software to transfer and install the Zimbra Collaboration Suite software. • Valid DNS configured with an A record and MX record • Servers should be configured to run Network Time Protocol (NTP) on a scheduled basis
Administrator Computers *These OS configurations have been tested and are known to work. Other configurations may work.	• Windows XP with either Internet Explorer 7.0 and 6.0 SP2 or Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 • Macintosh OS X 10.4 with Firefox 2.0 and 3.0
End User Computers using Zimbra Web Client *These OS configurations have been tested and are known to work. Other configurations may work.	Minimum • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 750MHz • 256MB RAM   Recommended • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 1.5GHz • 512MB RAM   Operating system/ browser combinations • Windows XP with either Internet Explorer 7 and 6.0 SP 2 or Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 • Fedora Core 4 with Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 • Mac OS X 10.4 with Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 or Safari 3 (Note: Safari 2 is only supported for the Standard Zimbra Web Client.) Note: Firefox 3.0 and Safari 3 are supported beginning with 5.0.9
End User Computers Using Other Clients *These OS configurations have been tested and are known to work. Other configurations may work.	Minimum • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 750MHz • 256MB RAM   Recommended • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 1.5GHz • 512MB RAM   Operating system POP/IMAP combinations • Windows XP with either Outlook Express 6, Outlook 2003, (MAPI), Thunderbird • Fedora Core 4 with Thunderbird • Mac OS X 10.4 with Apple Mail   Accessibility and Screen Readers Zimbra recommends that customers requiring use of screen readers for accessibility leverage the use of the Standard Zimbra Web Client (HTML). Zimbra continues to invest in improving the accessibility of this interface. The latest updates can be found at http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28516
Monitor	Display minimum resolution 1024 x 768
Internet Connection Speed	128 kbps or higher

 

 

Zimbra Mobile for Network Edition only

Zimbra Mobile provides mobile data access to email, calendar, and contacts for users of selected mobile phones. Zimbra Mobile supports native synchronization with the following devices. • Treo™ 650 , Treo 700w • Windows Mobile 5 devices Zimbra Mobile supports synchronization with the following devices via “Mail for Exchange”. • Symbian S60/S80 smart devices such as Nokia E Series Note: Zimbra Connector for BES is in Beta for ZCS 5.0.

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Copyright 2008 Zimbra, Inc.

 

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ZCS Single Server Quick Start, Network Edition 5.0 (Rev November 2008)