VMware Scalix Appliance?

[tomcelica]

Hi do you folks have a generic VMware appliance we can download for an evaluation / integration?

Thanks
-tom

[ltward]

There is no VMware appliance available (to my knowledge) but you can download a copy of the Community Edition (http://www.scalix.com/community/downloads/) and create your own VM Scalix host. The Community Edition is free.

If you're interested in evaluating the Enterprise Edition, you can download a copy and run it for 60 days for free. http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/

For the Small Business Edition or Hosted Edition, email sales (info@scalix.com)

A comparison of the editions can be found at http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/products/ and http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/products/compare.php

[durnie]

There was alot of promises made by Chris a year ago that there would be a VMware appliance available and just wanted to see if it was available yet? We've been running ours on a development server and want to migrate it to our production cloud.

Where is Scalix with this effort?

[kanderson]

It's a non trivial task to build a VMware image because changes to either the IP address and/or the hostname will break the installation.

If you're waiting for an image that you need to move into production, I would suggest that you talk to a reseller. I know that we build them up in about 2 hours after we are given the clients network details. I'd assume all resellers would be willing to do that.

Kev.

[durnie]

It should also be trivial for the vendor to release a VMware virtual appliance. Make it unsupported or something but get something out there that satisfies the users requests.

CK

[Valerion]

Not really. There are a lot of config files being set up by the installer, and quite a few of them contains the IP and hostname of the machine, some of it for security (smtpd.cfg and the PostgreSQL database, for example). For a VMware installation, this cannot be known, so you will end up with a situation where the user have to edit these files manually afterwards. It may actually be faster for the user to install Scalix itself than to modify the image, especially for those not entirely comfortable with Linux.