Zimbra 8 System Requirements

ZCS System Requirements

	Requirements
Servers	Evaluation and Testing • Intel/AMD 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 2.0 GHZ+ 64-bit CPU • Minimum - 2 GB RAM Recommend minimum - 4 GB RAM • 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”. • RAID-5 is not recommended for installations with more than 100 accounts.
Operating System Network Edition	The following operating systems are supported: • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, AS/ES 6 (64-bit) requires RHEL6 6.1 or later.   • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SP2 (64-bit) is recommended. SP1 (64-bit) or later required.   • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Edition (64-bit) • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition (64-bit)
Virtualization Network Edition	The following hypervisors are supported: • VMware vSphere 4.x • VMware vSphere 5.x
Operating System Open Source Edition	In addition to supporting the operating systems listed above for the Network Edition, other operating system versions are available for the Open Source Edition. Check the Zimbra Open Source Downloads page on www.zimbra.com.
File Systems	ext3 file system for Linux deployments
Other Dependencies	Netcat (nc) is required on all operating systems using ZCS. The nc utility must be installed prior to installation or upgrading.   For SUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian systems, disable AppArmor and verify services that are running before installing ZCS.   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) • GMP. GNU Multiple-Precision Library.   For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Debian 5: • Sudo • libidn11 • libpcre3 • libexpat1 • libgmp3c2 Note: Debian 5 and Ubuntu 10 (64-bit) require libperl5.10
Miscellaneous	• SSH client software to transfer and install the VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server 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 Note: Other configurations may work.	The following operating system/browser combinations are supported: Windows XP with required updates, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 with one of the following: • Internet Explorer 8.0 and higher • IE8.x for XP • IE9.x and higher for Vista/Windows 7 • IE10 for Windows 8 • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, 10.7 “Lion” with one of the following: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or SUSE) with one of the following: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Google Chrome
End User Computers using Zimbra Web Client Note: Other configurations may work.	Minimum • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 750MHz • 256MB RAM   Recommended • Intel/AMD/Power PC CPU 1.5GHz • 512MB RAM   For Zimbra Web Client - Advanced version: The following operating system/browser combinations for the advanced Zimbra Web Client are supported: Windows XP with required updates, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 with one of the following: • Internet Explorer 8.0 and higher • IE8.x for XP • IE9.x and higher for Vista/Windows 7 • IE10 for Windows 8 • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, 10.7 “Lion” with one of the following: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or SUSE) with one of the following: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Google Chrome
End User Computers using Zimbra Web Client (continued)	For Zimbra Web Client - Standard version The following operating system/browser combinations for the standard Zimbra Web Client are supported: Windows XP with required updates, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 with one of the following: • Internet Explorer 8.0 and higher • IE8.x for XP • IE9.x and higher for Vista/Windows 7 • IE10 for Windows 8 • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, 10.7 “Lion” with one of the following: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Safari • Google Chrome   Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, or SUSE) with one of the following browsers: • The latest stable release of: • Firefox • Google Chrome
End User Computers Using Other Clients	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 SP 3, Vista SP 2, Windows 7 with Outlook Express 6, Outlook 2003, (MAPI), Thunderbird • Fedora Core 4 or later with Thunderbird • Mac OS X 10.4 or later 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.
	**Recommendation - If users are presently using IE 6, Zimbra strongly recommends that they upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer for optimal performance with ZWC.
Monitor	Display minimum resolution 1024 x 768
Internet Connection Speed	128 kbps or higher

Zimbra Connector for Outlook - Network Edition only
Operating System	• Windows XP with required updates • Vista • Windows 7 • Windows 8
Microsoft Outlook	• Outlook 2003: Client computers must have Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP3 or later installed. • Outlook 2007: Client computers must have Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 SP3 or later installed. • Outlook 2010: 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Outlook are supported.

Zimbra Mobile - Network Edition only

Zimbra Mobile (MobileSync) provides mobile data access to email, calendar, and contacts for users of selected mobile operating system support, including: Smartphone Operating Systems: • iOS 4.0 and later • Android 2.0 and later Windows Mobile 6.0 and later Non-Smartphone Operating Systems: Various device/operating system combinations with mobile WAP browser. See the Zimbra web site http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra_mobile.html for more information.

 

Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server - Network Edition only

Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (ZCB) provides seamless, real-time synchronization of Zimbra user mailbox data to BlackBerry devices. See the Zimbra web site http://www.zimbra.com/products/blackberry-enterprise-server.html for more information.