SME Server talk:Documentation:Administration Manual:Chapter5

Hardware Mirroring

With hardware mirroring, you use a special RAID disk controller to perform the actual mirroring across multiple disks. As mirroring is performed in hardware, the performance can be significantly faster than software mirroring. Additionally it can simplify configuration because to the operating system the entire RAID disk system looks like one single disk. You should be able to use any supported SCSI hardware RAID controller.

If you are going to use hardware mirroring, you should NOT choose Install - Dual hard disk with software RAID-1 mirroring during the installation process described in section 5.4. Installing the Software. (Doing so will enable software mirroring.) Instead, you should do a regular installation of the software. See Booting

	Note:
	Using one of the supported hardware RAID controllers, you will be able to upgrade from an earlier version of the SME Server to version 6.x using the standard upgrade process detailed in section 5.3. Upgrading From A Previous Version. You should back up all your data and test carefully after installation.

Installing the Software

When booting from the installation CD you will get a boot prompt where you can simply press Enter to start the standard installation (or upgrade) routine.

	Tip:
	You have some command Line Options that you can use to set some parameters as LVM (activated by default), software Raid option (none,0,1,5,6).You can use the function keys F1 to F5 to get more information about different boot options. see Booting

After showing the boot prompt for some time SME will start the installation process automatically. It will then afford you the opportunity to test the installation medium.

Afterwards you can choose which language you want to use for the following installation process.