How to install IceWarp using preinstalled image

Hyper-V or Vmware hypervisors are necessary to install the Fulltext server image. The image comes preloaded with a Linux distribution. Images can be downloaded from the IceWarp web download section. The installation process is very similar to the steps described in the Full-text-search related article.

Hyper-V installation

• Download the latest version of the Fulltext image for Hyper-V from our website here. and extract it, for example, with WinRar.
• Open your Hyper-V interface and Click on "Import new Virtual Machine..."

• Select the extracted folder and Click on "Next"
• Choose "Copy the virtual machine (create a new unique ID)" and click on "Next"
• Choose your location for the virtual machine; you can use the default path and click on "Next"
• Choose the location of the virtual machine's discs and click on "Next"
• Now you can select the proper Network card to connect to and make sure the network you choose is also available for the IceWarp server to connect to since the servers need to connect.
• Review the final recapitulation of the setup and click on "Finish"

Before you turn on the Virtual machine, It is recommended to increase the number of CPUs dedicated to the virtual machine. 

• Right-click on the imported Virtual machine and click on the settings
• Select "Processor" and grant the Virtual server at least 4 CPU cores and click apply
• Now you can Turn the Virtual Machine on and continue to the "Connection to IceWarp server" section.

VMware installation

• Download the latest version of the Fulltext image for VMware from our website here. and extract it, for example, with WinRar.
• Open your VMware program and click on Player > File > Open and select your extracted image.
• Name your virtual machine and select a destination for the storage path and click on "Import"

Before you turn on the Virtual machine, It is recommended to increase the number of CPUs dedicated to the virtual machine.

• Right-click on your imported Virtual machine

• Click on Processors and assign at least four cores to the Virtual Machine and click on "Ok"

• Now you can Turn the Virtual Machine on and continue to the "Connection to IceWarp server" section.

Connection to IceWarp server

After successful to the server from the hypervisor (Hyper-V example on the screen below), the inital username and password are shown.

Use them to login into the server's console. Do not forget to change the credentials after the installation is done!

Running deploy.sh script

After deploy.sh wizard is started, it helps an administrator to go through the installation process. Although the process is described in an apropriate detail, below are the screenshots of individual steps: