Collection Manifest

DataCore Software has implemented product telemetry within its core products; installed by default if the Product EULA is accepted. Data collection can be enabled or disabled at any time, see Enabling or Disabling Data Collection. Personally identifiable data is not collected.

The following data is collected by the current product release.

DataCore Product Version

Product build information about each DataCore product on the machine, as written into the registry:

  • TmyBuildVersions
    • ServiceVersion
    • PluginVersions
      • BundleCollectorTmyPlugin
      • SDSTmyPlugin
      • SystemTmyPlugin
  • SdsBuildVersion
  • WikBuildVersion
  • RestBuildVersion

Windows Installed Features

Information about all installed features of the operating system running on the machine:

  • Features (for example, "File and iSCSI Services, File and Storage Services, File Server, TCP Port Sharing")

Windows Installed Programs

Information about all programs on the machine that are not native to the operating system:

  • Caption
  • Version
  • Publisher

Windows Installed Services

Information about all services provided by the service controller:

  • Name
  • ServiceType
  • StartType
  • Status

DataCore CDP Info

Information about all virtual disks that have CDP (Continuous Data Protection) enabled:

  • VirtualDiskId
  • HistoryLogServerId
  • HistoryLogBytesUsed
  • HistoryLogBytesAllocated
  • MaxHistoryLogSize

DataCore SDS Clients

Information about each registered host in the configuration:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • Type
  • AluaSupport
  • PathPolicy
  • MpioCapable

DataCore SDS Clients Performance

The SDS Clients Performance Monitor provides the performance counters for all clients in the configuration:

  • Id
  • ObjectHealthScore
  • State
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • MaxReadSize
  • MaxWriteSize
  • MaxOperationSize
  • TotalBytesProvisioned

DataCore SDS Configuration

SDS configuration data on Server Group level and Server level (collected on first run only):

  • ServersInfo
    • Id
    • ProductBuild
    • ProductType
    • LicenseExceeded
    • LicenseRemaining
    • LicenseNumber
    • LicenseSettings
      • MaxServers
      • MaxPartnerGroups
      • MaxMappedHosts
      • BidirectionalReplication
      • FiberChannel
      • ThinProvisioning
      • Snapshot
      • iSCSI
      • StorageCapacity
      • LicensedBulkStorage
      • BulkEnabled
      • RetentionTime
      • AutoTiering
      • HeatMaps
      • SharedStorage
      • PerformanceAnalysis
      • ResourceAuthorization
      • SequentialStorage
      • MaxBypassThreads
      • MaxPollerThreads
      • Mirroring
      • Witness
  • GroupInfo
    • LicenseType
    • MaxStorage
    • LicenseSettings
      • MaxServers
      • MaxPartnerGroups
      • MaxMappedHosts
      • BidirectionalReplication
      • FiberChannel
      • ThinProvisioning
      • Snapshot
      • iSCSI
      • StorageCapacity
      • LicensedBulkStorage
      • BulkEnabled
      • RetentionTime
      • AutoTiering
      • HeatMaps
      • SharedStorage
      • PerformanceAnalysis
      • ResourceAuthorization
      • SequentialStorage
      • MaxBypassThreads
      • MaxPollerThreads
      • Mirroring
      • Witness

DataCore SDS Connections

Information about each port connection in the configuration:

  • Id
  • PortAId
  • PortBId
  • Connected

DataCore Container Storage Interface Hosts

Information about all CSI (Container Storage Interface) hosts in the configuration:

  • ServerGroupId
  • Hosts
    • Id
    • DockerVersion
    • KubernetesVersion
    • NumberOfContainers
    • PersistentVolumes
      • PersistentVolumeID
      • Size

DataCore Disks

Information about all DataCore disks that are served either to a registered client or a server in the configuration:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • PoolId
  • VirtualDiskId
  • HostId

DataCore Disk Pool Info

Configuration data about each disk pool:

  • Id
  • ServerIds
  • FreeSpace
  • ReservedSpace
  • TotalAllocatedSpace
  • HistoryLogAllocations
  • SequentialStorageAllocations
  • SystemAllocations
  • VirtualDiskAllocations
  • Size
  • ChunkSize
  • SectorSize
  • PoolStatus
  • MaxTierNumber
  • TierReservedPct
  • InSharedMode
  • SMPAApproved
  • IsSharedPool
  • Members
    • DiskId
    • UniqueId
    • Tier
    • IsMirrored

DataCore Disk Pools

Information about DataCore disk pools:

  • DiskPools
    • Id
    • Caption
    • SharedPoolId
    • ServerId
    • ChunkSize
    • SectorSize
    • MaxTierNumber
    • TierReservedPct
    • AutoTieringEnabled
    • IsAuthorized
    • InSharedMode
    • SMPAApproved
    • SupportsEncryption
    • HasEncryption
  • SharedDiskPools
    • Id
    • Caption
    • ChunkSize
    • SectorSize
    • MaxTierNumber
    • TierReservedPct
    • SMPAApproved

DataCore Disk Pools Performance

Performance counters for each disk pool (including shared pools):

  • BytesAvailable
  • ObjectHealthScore
  • TotalBytesMigrated
  • BytesInReclamation
  • PresenceStatus
  • Id
  • BytesTotal
  • MaxReadTime
  • MaxPoolBytes
  • MaxWriteTime
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • BytesAllocated
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWriteTime
  • BytesOverSubscribed
  • TotalWrites
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • PoolStatus
  • TotalReadTime
  • MaxReadWriteTime
  • BytesReserved

DataCore Features Used

Information whether a particular DataCore feature is configured to be used in the monitored server group:

  • SingleVirtualDisks
  • DualVirtualDisks
  • MirrorVirtualDisks
  • NWayVirtualDisks
  • PassthruVirtualDisks
  • VVOLs
  • Snapshots
  • Rollbacks
  • CDPUsedCount
  • SequentialStorageUsedCount
  • LocalReplications
  • RemoteReplications
  • MappedFcPorts
  • MappedIScsiPorts
  • SharedPools
  • RegularPools
  • QoSOnHostGroups
  • QoSOnVDGroups
  • ClientMappings
  • MirrorMappings
  • HistoricalRecordingEnabled
  • UserRecordingEnabled
  • WitnessConfigured
  • Servers
  • RegisteredHosts
  • MirrorTrunkingEnabled

DataCore License Performance

Licensing usage and limits in bytes for the server group and all servers:

  • ServerGroupsLicensePerformance
    • Id
    • StorageUsed
    • BulkStorageUsed
    • DataCoreStorageUsed
    • DataCoreBulkStorageUsed
    • StorageCapacity
    • LicensedBulkStorage
  • LocalServersLicensePerformance
    • Id
    • StorageUsed
    • BulkStorageUsed
    • DataCoreStorageUsed
    • DataCoreBulkStorageUsed
    • StorageCapacity
    • LicensedBulkStorage

DataCore Logical Disks

Information about non-internal logical disks:

  • Id
  • VirtualDiskId
  • ServerId
  • Role
  • PoolId
  • PhysicalDiskId
  • SectorSize
  • MappingName
  • Virtualized
  • ClientAccessRights
  • MirrorAccessDisabled
  • IsMapped
  • EncryptionEnabled

DataCore Logical Disks Performance

Performance counters for each logical disk in the configuration:

  • Id
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • CacheReadHits
  • CacheReadMisses
  • CacheWriteHits
  • CacheWriteMisses
  • CacheReadHitBytes
  • CacheReadMissBytes
  • CacheWriteHitBytes
  • CacheWriteMissBytes
  • PercentRecovered
  • PendingClientIOsToMirror
  • PendingRecoveryIOs
  • RemoteReads
  • RemoteWrites
  • BytesRecovered
  • BytesToRecover
  • TotalReadTime
  • TotalWriteTime
  • MaxReadTime
  • MaxWriteTime
  • PercentReplaced
  • CacheBackendTotalWrites
  • CacheBackendTotalReads
  • CacheBackendTotalWriteTime
  • CacheBackendTotalReadTime
  • CacheBackendMaxReadTime
  • CacheBackendMaxWriteTime
  • CacheBackendMaxIOTime

DataCore SDS Monitors

Information about all DataCore SANsymphony monitors that contain the information displayed under System Health in the DataCore Management Console:

  • StatusMonitors
    • State
    • TimeStamp
    • ExtendedCaption
    • MessageText
    • MonitoredObjectType
    • MonitoredObjectId
  • PerformanceThresholdMonitors
    • Counter
    • AttentionLevel
    • WarningLevel
    • CriticalLevel
    • State
    • TimeStamp
    • ExtendedCaption
    • MessageText
    • MonitoredObjectType
    • MonitoredObjectId

DataCore Physical Disks

Configuration information about each physical disk in use:

  • PhysicalDisks
    • Id
    • Caption
    • SharedPhysicalDiskId
    • ServerId
    • PoolId
    • Size
    • SectorSize
    • DiskIndex
    • SystemName
    • BusType
    • Type
    • PoolMemberId
    • Partitioned
    • InUse
    • IsBootDisk
    • Protected
    • IsSolidState
    • IsDataCoreDisk
    • UniqueIdentifier
    • IsMirrored
    • DiskTier
    • DiskInRecoveryId
  • SharedPhysicalDisks
    • Id
    • Caption

DataCore Physical Disks Performance

Information about physical disks (including shared physical disks) read and write latency:

  • Id
  • MaxReadTime
  • MaxWriteTime
  • TotalReadsTime
  • TotalWritesTime
  • TotalPendingCommands
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalOperationsTime
  • MaxReadWriteTime
  • PercentIdleTime
  • AverageQueueLength

DataCore Poller Performance

Information about how many pollers (I/O load balancers) are active, how many ports each of them is monitoring, and what their productive I/O load is:

  • Id
  • ServerID
  • CpuNum
  • CPUChanges
  • IdleCount
  • SleepCount
  • Overlapped
  • UnproductiveCount
  • ProductiveCount
  • ProductiveTime
  • EntryCount
  • Entries
    • Id
    • ProductiveCount
    • WWN
    • SymbolicName
    • Alias

DataCore Ports

Information about DataCore ports, including server, host, and backend ports:

  • ServersPorts
    • Id
    • Caption
    • HostId
    • PortType
    • PresenceStatus
    • PhysicalName
    • RoleCapability
    • PortName
    • PortMode
    • Address (encrypted)
  • HostsPorts
    • Id
    • Caption
    • HostId
    • PortType
  • BackendPorts
    • Id
    • Caption
    • PortType

DataCore Ports Performance

Performance counters for all ports (including server and host ports) in the configuration:

  • Id
  • InitiatorBytesTransferred
  • InitiatorBytesRead
  • InitiatorBytesWritten
  • InitiatorOperations
  • InitiatorReads
  • InitiatorWrites
  • InitiatorReadTime
  • InitiatorWriteTime
  • InitiatorMaxReadTime
  • InitiatorMaxWriteTime
  • TargetBytesTransferred
  • TargetBytesRead
  • TargetBytesWritten
  • TargetOperations
  • TargetReads
  • TargetWrites
  • TargetReadTime
  • TargetWriteTime
  • TargetMaxReadTime
  • TargetMaxWriteTime
  • PendingInitiatorCommands
  • PendingTargetCommands
  • TotalPendingCommands
  • LinkFailureCount
  • LossOfSyncCount
  • LossOfSignalCount
  • PrimitiveSeqProtocolErrCount
  • InvalidTransmissionWordCount
  • InvalidCrcCount
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • TargetMaxIOTime
  • BusyCount

DataCore Replications

Information about all sides of all replications:

  • FirstServerId
  • FirstVirtualDiskId
  • SecondServerId
  • SecondVirtualDiskId
  • IsActiveSide
  • ReplicationState
  • FailureStatus
  • TransferStatus
  • Paused
  • CheckpointSnapshotId
  • AutoAsyncReplicationLicense
  • OfflineInitializationSupported
  • InitializationType
  • OfflineInitializationBuffer
  • OfflineInitStatus
  • InitializationFailureStatus
  • TestModeStatus
  • IsChangingBufferFolders
  • BackendStatus
  • DuplicatedDiskId
  • Id
  • Caption

DataCore Rollbacks

Information about each local rollback in the configuration:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • SourceLogicalDiskId
  • DestinationLogicalDiskId

DataCore Server Groups

Information about each server group in the configuration:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • IsOurGroup
  • MirrorTrunkMappingEnabled
  • SelfHealingDelay
  • DefaultWitness
  • DefaultWitnessOption
  • WitnessAllowed

DataCore Server Groups Performance

Information about all the performance counters for the server group:

  • Id
  • InitiatorBytesTransferred
  • InitiatorBytesRead
  • InitiatorBytesWritten
  • InitiatorOperations
  • InitiatorReads
  • InitiatorWrites
  • TargetBytesTransferred
  • TargetBytesRead
  • TargetBytesWritten
  • TargetOperations
  • TargetReads
  • TargetWrites
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • NullCounterMap

DataCore Servers

Information about each server (local and remote) in the configuration:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • HostName
  • IpAddresses (encrypted)
  • IpAddressesCount
  • TotalSystemMemory
  • IsVirtualMachine
  • IsAzureVirtualMachine
  • IsPayGo
  • HypervisorHostId
  • ConnectionInterface
  • MapstorePoolId
  • ProductType
  • OSversion
  • ReplicationBufferFolder
  • IsLicensed
  • LogstorePoolId

DataCore Servers Performance

Performance counters for all servers in the configuration:

  • Id
  • ObjectHealthScore
  • State
  • InitiatorBytesTransferred
  • InitiatorBytesRead
  • InitiatorBytesWritten
  • InitiatorOperations
  • InitiatorReads
  • InitiatorWrites
  • TargetBytesTransferred
  • TargetBytesRead
  • TargetBytesWritten
  • TargetOperations
  • TargetReads
  • TargetWrites
  • TotalBytesMigrated
  • CacheSize
  • FreeCache
  • CacheReadHits
  • CacheReadMisses
  • CacheWriteHits
  • CacheWriteMisses
  • CacheReadHitBytes
  • CacheReadMissBytes
  • CacheWriteHitBytes
  • CacheWriteMissBytes
  • SupportRemainingBytesToSend
  • SupportBytesSent
  • SupportPercentTransferred
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • PollerProductiveCount
  • PollerUnproductiveCount
  • PollerDedicatedCPUs
  • PollerLoad
  • TargetMaxIOTime
  • MirrorTargetMaxIOTime
  • MirrorTargetBytesTransfered
  • MirrorTargetOperations
  • FrontEndTargetMaxIOTime
  • FrontEndTargetBytesTransfered
  • FrontEndTargetOperations
  • PoolMaxIOTime
  • PoolBytesTransfered
  • PoolOperations
  • PhysicalDiskMaxIOTime
  • PhysicalDiskBytesTransfered
  • PhysicalDiskOperations
  • ReplicationBytesToSend
  • ReplicationBufferPercentFreeSpace
  • SupportPercentCollected

DataCore Snapshots

Information about each local snapshot:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • SourceLogicalDiskId
  • DestinationLogicalDiskId
  • Type
  • TimeStamp
  • ActiveOperation
  • State
  • Failure
  • SequenceNumber

DataCore Snapshots Performance

Performance counters for each snapshot in the configuration:

  • Id
  • MigrationPercentage
  • DifferencePercentage
  • SnapshotReads
  • SnapshotWrites
  • TotalBytesMigrated

DataCore Virtual Disks

Information about local and remote virtual disks, including snapshots and rollbacks in the remote group:

  • Id
  • Caption
  • Type
  • SubType
  • PreferredServerId
  • Size
  • SectorSize
  • RecoveryPriority
  • StorageProfileId
  • WitnessId
  • WitnessOption
  • IsServed
  • WriteThrough
  • NVMe
  • ManualRecovery
  • PersistentReserveEnabled
  • EncryptionEnabled
  • ResiliencyEnabled

DataCore Virtual Disks Performance

Performance counters for each virtual disk in the configuration:

  • Id
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalBytesMigrated
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • TotalOperations
  • CacheReadHits
  • CacheReadMisses
  • CacheWriteHits
  • CacheWriteMisses
  • CacheReadHitBytes
  • CacheReadMissBytes
  • CacheWriteHitBytes
  • CacheWriteMissBytes
  • ReplicationBytesSent
  • ReplicationBytesToSend
  • ReplicationTimeLag
  • InitializationPercentage
  • TestModeProgressPercentage
  • ConsistencyCheckPercentage
  • BytesAllocated
  • PercentAllocated
  • BytesOutOfAffinity
  • PercentBytesOutOfAffinity
  • MaxReadWriteTime

DataCore Virtual Logical Units

Information about all Virtual logical units in the configuration:

  • Id
  • LogicalDiskId
  • VirtualTargetDeviceId
  • PhysicalDiskId
  • Lun
  • Access
  • Type
  • Preferred
  • Enabled

DataCore Virtual Logical Units Performance

Performance counters for all mappings in the configuration (collected on first run only):

  • Id
  • ObjectHealthScore
  • TotalBytesTransferred
  • TotalBytesRead
  • TotalBytesWritten
  • TotalReads
  • TotalWrites
  • TotalOperations
  • TotalReadTime
  • TotalWriteTime
  • MaxReadTime
  • MaxWriteTime
  • MaxReadSize
  • MaxWriteSize
  • MaxOperationSize

DataCore Virtual Target Devices

Information about every Virtual Target Device in the configuration:

  • Id
  • InitiatorPortId
  • TargetPortId

System Information

Information related to the physical system such as operating system details, processor, memory, attached physical disks, and details about them:

  • MachineName
  • OperatingSystem
  • OperatingSystemVersion
  • OperatingSystemBuild
  • IsHypervVM
  • ProcessorCount
  • LogicalProcessorCount
  • Model
  • MemoryGB
  • NumberOfDisks
  • TotalDisksSizeGB
  • TimeZone
  • Culture
  • AgentVersion
  • AgentElapsedRunTime
  • Disks
    • Disk
      • OptimizationLevel
      • UniqueId
      • Index
      • SizeGB
      • Model
      • Name
      • Key

DataCore Bundle Collector

Collects information, such as logs, heat maps, object model, etc., so it can be searched through for potential issues:

  • Dcsx Log
  • ETL Log
  • Event Log
    • Application - collected from every machine
    • System - collected from every machine
    • Windows Powershell - collected from every machine
    • OperationsManager - collected from machines that have Operations Manager set up
    • Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Diagnostic - collected from machines that have Deduplication set up
    • Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Operational - collected from machines that have Deduplication set up
    • Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Performance - collected from machines that have Deduplication set up
    • Microsoft-Windows-Deduplication/Scrubbing - collected from machines that have Deduplication set up
  • Heat Map
  • ServiceState and Configuration

Deprecated Monitor Messages

  • Analytics Platform Specification for SANsymphony-V / HVSAN
  • DataCore Host Status Monitor (Deprecated)
  • DataCore Object Status Monitor (Deprecated)
  • DataCore Performance Monitor (Deprecated)
  • DataCore Threshold Status Monitor (Deprecated)