[ZendTo] Recommended Ubuntu setup for zend.to server

[Jules]

Marlon,

Considering the timescales you work on, I would advise using the latest 
LTS release of Ubuntu. It may well save you time in the long run.

For the storage, you might want to let Ubuntu do its default behaviour, 
but put /var/zendto in a volume of its own at the end of the disk. 
Everything in /var/zendto needs to be in the same volume/partition.

But if it's only a "throwaway" demo server for The Management(tm), then 
it won't matter much as you'll almost certainly rebuild it before making 
it a production service anyway.

When installing Ubuntu, just do a minimal install. You might want to 
install the openssh-server package to give yourself remote ssh access to 
it, but beyond that the ZendTo Installer will add everything it needs.

Hope that helps,
Jules.

On 11/07/2020 02:57, Marlon Deerr via ZendTo wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> It’s been roughly 5+ years since I have used Zend.to and roughly the 
> same amount of time since managing one from a Citrix XenServer host 
> with Ubuntu as the Linux server hosting Zend.to.  I would like to 
> eventually put zend.to services into production.  I have access to HP 
> ProLiant server that is now out of official production so I thought I 
> would use it to demo to upper management what zend.to can do for our 
> environment.
>
> I was wondering if someone can provide a bit of advice on best way to 
> set things up.
>
> 1.I have roughly 800GB of storage
>
> 2.I’ll be installing Ubuntu 19.10 (fresh install)
>
> a.How should I allocate storage? I’m assuming either of these are my 
> choices
>
> i.One large partition for OS as well as drop-offs ?
>
> ii.One partition for OS and one partition for drop-offs?
>
> b.When I install Ubuntu, should I leave it fresh without any 
> additional software/services installed during installation?
>
> Any help on best setup would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Marlon
>
>
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