I want your advice helped me to configure the Zimbra mail server

[vuongnt]

Dear all

I want your advice helped me to configure the Zimbra mail server.

I want install system mail server Zimbra, about 8000 user then How configure server ?( RAM, CPU, HDD) (account email 100MB - 300MB). forward to the help from everyone and Administrator Zimbra

Thanks,

[uxbod]

Welcome to the forums

Would you be installing the community edition or network edition ?

Will you be using SAN based storage ?

What type of access will your users be making ? Web Client / Fat Client / IMAP / POP3

You need to provide more detail before we would be able to help.

If you look under the Installation topic on the forums this question has been asked many times.

[vuongnt]

Dear Uxbod

I installing Zimbra server vestion zcs-6.0.5_GA_2213.RHEL5.20100202220948.tgz

I don`t SAN, I user HDD standar scsi (200 GB,..)

access will your users Web Client / IMAP / POP3.

would Uxbod help

Thanks,

[uxbod]

IMHO I think you would be looking at a two CPU dual core system with minimum 4GB RAM. Memory is pretty cheap these days so I would go with 8GB using the smallest memory modules. That way you can easily drop in another 8GB.

[vuongnt]

Thanks
How much main source using a user account ? (how about CPU, RAM, HDD / one user)

[uxbod]

Well that is dependant on the profile of the user; and difficult to answer. If they are using the advanced Ajax Web Client then most of the processing will be happening on their workstation (as it is a web based technology). The back end grunt work will be the processing of mail eg. av/as scanning, handling the mailstore, zimlets, tracking changes. etc etc etc. The more processing power you can give the better the experience, but the specs above I believe would provide a solid system. Dependant on how you are going to grow you may be better considering a small SAN now instead of later.

[dalmate]

well, it depends on your users' needs.
In my company, our users only use imap,POP3 and SMTP (sometimes they use webclient) so with my server, we can serve for 500 accounts
This is my server hardware (single install):
cpu: xeon 4 cpu, dual core 2.0 GHz
ram: 4GB
Hardisk: a 36 GB hardisk and four 146 GB Hardisk
OS : ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS 32-bit version
ZCS: GA 6.0.1