Ann Jackson: Installing Tableau Server on Linux, Tableau 2021.1 Edition

"It’s been over 2 years since we wrote our original blog post on installing Tableau Server on a Linux machine, to date it remains our most trafficked blog post. Since Tableau has continued to release new versions, we decided it was time to update our blog to reflect a new deployment.

Just like before, we’re starting with a fresh OS installation, still using Ubuntu LTS 16.04 (hey, it’s LTS for a reason!). We’ve upgraded our hardware, this time we’re installing on an actual data center server, an HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 8-Port, with the following specs:

• (2) 2.6 GHz 8 Core Intel Xenon Processors with 20MB Cache (e5-2640v3)
• 128 GB Memory PC4-17000R (8 x 16GB sticks)
• 250 GB SSD"

To dive into the full blog post, click here. 

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