Zimbra on VMWARE = Rocking!

[natrixgli]

Hi,

There seems to be a lot of chat about this lately, just wanted to share that I'm running ZCS 4.0 on a FC4 VM (on a Windows XP Pro host.)

7 Users, uptime about 3 days, and no issues so far!

I allocated 20gb and 512 MB.. The VM is using ~275mb on average and rarely pegs the CPU on my Sempron 3000+.

Obviously these specs wouldn't suffice with tons of users, but I find it encouraging that everything went so smoothly that I'm planning to switch from hardware to VMWARE at work. I love the snapshot feature, I've used it daily, and restored once just for S's & G's with no issues.


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[rsharpe]

VMware works very nicely.
I'm running a two Zimbra LDAP, and one mailstore in VMs. And two MTAs on physical machines. I haven't seen a single problem with VMware. IIRC Zimbra is actually using VMware as well.

[LMStone]

We run Network Edition 4.0.1 on a single OpenSuSE 10.0 VMware virtual machine, running on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 host. About 40 users so far and five domains. No problems so far. Plan to scale to several hundred users in the next few months.

Mark