[ale] Zimbra on Ubuntu 10.04 Migrations

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Mon Mar 9 20:55:54 EDT 2015


Anyone else planning their Zimbra migration off Ubuntu 10.04 before support ends
next month?

I've spent most of today testing the migration from
Ubuntu 10.04 --> 12.04 --> 14.04

With Zimbra versions
7.2.7 --> 8.0.9 --> 8.0.9(a) --> 8.0.9(b) --> 8.0.9(c) --> 8.0.9(d) --> 8.6

8.0.9 is the 1 release that runs on all three Ubuntu LTS releases, but two
installs are necessary on 12.04 and 14.04 of the same version F&^^%^&%ing, but
different packages (still twice each) to get the migration working.

On a test machine, I've made it to Ubu-14.04 running Zimbra 8.0.9 - the 8.6
installer doesn't like that my hostname and cert don't match for 1 of the email
domains running on the machine - it is refusing to make an LDAPS connection.

Alas - there is tomorrow to research that.

Looks like 3 hrs of downtime will be needed to complete this in prod. The email
front-end shouldn't have an issue caching for that time, I hope.

I love enterprise software. cough. cough.

So - anyone fighting with Zimbra?


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