System Requirements

Recommended Hardware

(depending on your email traffic and settings)

• Multicore CPU: 64bit (Intel 64 or AMD64), for use as virtual machine activate Intel VT/AMD-V CPU flag
• 4 GB RAM
• Bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
• Monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
• 1 Gbps Ethernet network interface card
• Storage: at least 8 GB free disk space, best setup with redundancy, use hardware RAID controller with battery backed write cache (“BBU”) or ZFS. ZFS is not compatible with a hardware RAID controller. For best performance use Enterprise class SSD with power loss protection.

Minimum Hardware

• CPU: 64bit (Intel 64 or AMD64)
• 2 GB RAM
• Bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support
• Monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 for the installation
• Hard disk with at least 8 GB of disk space
• Ethernet network interface card

Supported web browsers for accessing the web interface

To use the web-based user interface we recommend one of the following browsers:

• Firefox, a release of the current year, or the latest Extended Support Release
• Chrome, a release of the current year
• Microsoft's currently supported version of Edge
• Safari, a release of the current year

Installation on a virtual host

To deploy Proxmox Mail Gateway on a virtualization platform you can use the same resource settings like on a physical hardware. The following platforms are supported:

• Proxmox Virtual Environment
• VMware vSphere
• Hyper-V
• KVM
• Virtual box
• Citrix Hypervisor
• LXC container
• ...and others supporting Debian Linux as guest OS

If you want more information about using your Proxmox Mail Gateway on a virtual host, please contact us.