I have a PERC H700 controller from Dell which appears to be a re-badged LSI 9260-16i raid card. I looked in the download link from LSI, but it only has the MegaRaid Storage Manager for Linux. MegaCLI for Windows is provided but I prefer a GUI.
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I looked up another raid card: LSI 9265-8i and it has the MegaRaid Storage Manager available for Windows. Is it okay for me to install it and monitor the PERC H700? Or was this program specifically designed for 1 raid card?
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A lot of blogs mention monitoring the PERC H700 using the LSI utility, just want to find the correct version.
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Openmanage as suggested above is a great tool that I think MUST be installed on any compatible Dell server that give information and allows configuration of more than just the RAID controller. However the Megaraid Storage Manager allows more control of the RAID controller than Openmanage or even accessing the RAID controller BIOS.
To get the utility, look at Dell's support pages for older servers fitted with the PERC5/6 such as the Poweredge 29xx or Rxx0. (obviously you need to match your operating system).
The later version of the utility installs on the server to be administered. The older version (if you can find it) seems to be split into a server and client part. When installing the package on a server with a PERC it installs both server and client. Alldata 10.53 free download. If installing on a pc without a PERC it only installs the client.
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The advantage in the older version is that you can have one client on your normal desktop and connect this to any of the servers as and when required.
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Is there a reason why you're not using Dell's OpenManage? This comes straight from the vendor (Dell), does everything you stated that you want (monitoring), and is quite useful outside of storage monitoring.
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When in doubt, trust the vendor, especially if it's a huge and well-known vendor like Dell.
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