Our VirtualBox installation of Zimbra Network Edition Appliance has been “Upgraded” to a Zimbra Open Source Edition Appliance. The default message store volume is small for a production server, so I’m going to increase the capacity. While it’s easy to increase the size of your VMDK disk images in using the clone/resize/clone process, it’s equally…
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Now that my Zimbra Network Edition Appliance is all setup and ready to use, I’m going to convert it to a Zimbra Open Source Edition Server Appliance. Once I am done with the “Upgrade” I’m going to increase the storage capacity of this VirtualBox appliance before putting into production. I feel that I should make…
Continue ReadingToday I’m going to install the Network Edition Appliance of VMWare’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite in a VirtualBox virtual machine. In another article I will upgrade this to an Open Source Edition appliance and increase the storage capacity of the appliance. We’ve already built our Ubuntu 12.04 LTS headless virtual machine server with the phpvirtualbox package for…
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I’m going to set a static IP address on my Ubuntu LTS server. Login into the server’s console and edit the settings for your primary network interface in /etc/network/interfaces: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 …
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I’m going to setup the headless VirtualBox server and Virtual Machine management console using phpvirtualbox which is a web-based frontend written in PHP. This is a very basic Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with only OpenSSH services installed so I’m going to need to add a few packages. Let’s get started… I’ll need to install an…
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