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You would have found this answer on the forums if you'd searched. The Zimbra LDAP is required for installation, you can't use any other instance of LDAP.
Maybe there should be a FAQ post stickied to this forum (and one on each of the other popular sections) to minimize such questions? I see a lot of other forums do this.
There's a FAQ on the wiki but that's not set with community access.