ZCS Administrator Guide 8.0

Open Source Edition

Product Overview

The VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) architecture is built with well-known open source technologies and standards based protocols. The architecture consists of client interfaces and server components that can be ran in a single node configuration or deployed across multiple servers for high availability and increased scalability.

The architecture includes the following core advantages:

Open source integrations. Linux®, Jetty, Postfix, MySQL®, OpenLDAP®.

Uses industry standard open protocols. SMTP, LMTP, SOAP, XML, IMAP, POP.

Modern technology design. HTML5, Javascript, XML, and Java..

Horizontal scalability. Each Zimbra mailbox server includes its own mailbox accounts and associated message store and indexes. Zimbra has the flexibility to scale both vertically by adding more system resources or horizontally by adding more servers.

High Availability. ZCS ???????Browser based client interface. Zimbra Web Client gives users easy access to all the ZCS features.

Browser based administration console.