LSI / Intel RAID monitoring with LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager remotely

Remotely access your LSI based Hardware RAID with MegaRAID Storage Manager.

This how-to requires a bit of experience because i won't explain everything in detail how to use programs like WinSCP.

RAID Controllers Benchmark Overview

Raid Controller Benchmarks:

See below the results over different RAID Controllers.
The results are sorted by FSYNC/SECOND.
The highest score will be on top. 

System Specs are at the bottom of the page.

Proxmox VE 3.x: RAID Controllers

Compatible RAID Controllers:

Tested with Proxmox VE 3.2
RAID Controllers have been tested with any form of RAID configuration.
(RAID 0, RAID 1 or etc.)
RAID Controllers have been tested with only a Proxmox installation.
It has tested without any modification of drivers, etc. It just have to work with the original installation right away.

LSI based RAID Monitoring using MegaCli Tool Locally

Purpose:

With the basic installation of Proxmox VE there are no RAID management software installed.

When you have a RAID controller based on LSI you can install tools monitor a little bit.

Proxmox VE 3.1: RAID Controllers

Compatible RAID Controllers:

Tested with Proxmox VE 3.1
RAID Controllers have been tested with a RAID 1 configuration.
RAID Controllers have been tested with only a Proxmox installation.

Proxmox VE 2.2: RAID Controllers

Compatible RAID Controllers:

Tested with Proxmox VE 2.2
RAID Controllers have been tested with a RAID 1 configuration.
RAID Controllers have been tested with only a Proxmox installation.

*** Behind the RAID Controller means JBOD support only.