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-====== Beginners_Setup_Guide ====== 
  
-===== Preparation ===== 
-==== System Requirements ==== 
-Minimum system requirements are 2 vCPUs, 4GB of memory, and 40GB of disk space. 
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-However, these are just minimum requirements. 
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-It is recommended to scale up for higher workloads and add additional disk space if you are going to receive and send higher volumes of mail. 
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-Monitoring of your EFA is important to ensure that adequate resources are available. 
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-===== Deploying ===== 
-There are currently 3 options to deploy E.F.A., deploying on of the VM image is the most common way to start with E.F.A.  
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-If you don't have the option to deploy an Virtual Image (on some VPS hosters for example) you can build E.F.A. using the build scripts. 
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-1) Visit http://efa-project.org/download/ to download your E.F.A. VM for your hypervisor. 
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-2) Import the appliance into your hypervisor. 
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-(VMWare 5.x or newer) 
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-Extract the zip 
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-  * [[Deploying on VMware]] 
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-(Hyper-V 2012) 
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-Extract the zip 
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-  * [[Deploying on Hyper-V]] 
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-3) Power on the virtual machine 
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-4) Follow the console prompts to configure your E.F.A. 
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-5) After you configure E.F.A. and it reboots, it is recommended that you run an update. 
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- sudo /usr/local/sbin/EFA-Update -update 
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-  * [[Building E.F.A.]] 
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-===== Post-installation ===== 
-  * [[Initial Configuration]] 
-  * [[Post Configuration]] 
-    * [[Adding mail domains]] 
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-[[Category:Configuration]] 
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