LSI Storage Manger for Windows PERC H700 Controller

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.

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?

A lot of blogs mention monitoring the PERC H700 using the LSI utility, just want to find the correct version.

Solution 1:

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.

When in doubt, trust the vendor, especially if it's a huge and well-known vendor like Dell.