Manage telemetry settings in VMM

This article provides information about how to turn on/off the telemetry settings in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Note

Microsoft does not collect any personal data from the customers. We only listen to events that would help diagnostics in VMM. Learn more

Turn on/off telemetry in VMM

Use the following procedure:

1. On the VMM console, select Settings.

   General settings window appears with the available list of settings.

2. Select Diagnostics and Usage Data Settings.

   

   Page with Do you want to send Diagnostics and Usage Data to Microsoft message appears with an option to select either Yes or No.

   

   Note

   We recommend you to go through the privacy statement provided on this page before making a selection.

3. To turn on telemetry, select Yes, I am willing to send data to Microsoft.

4. To turn off telemetry, select No, I prefer not to send data to Microsoft.

Telemetry data collected

Data related To	Data collected
Census Data	Customer Domain Name Unique ID generated for the VMM deployment VMM build version ID used for correlation with other System Center products
Assurance Data	Information about the VMM deployment - whether guardian service deployment or not Count of guarded hosts being managed Count of hosts being managed Count of shielded VM templates Count of VM templates Count of shielded VMs Count of VMs Count of shielded clouds Count of guarded hosts in a cluster Count of guarded hosts in standalone deployments Count of code integrity policy in Global Settings Count of Physical Computer Profile (PCP) with host guarding set If the VMM deployment is a guardian service deployment and OM integrated If the VMM deployment is a guardian service deployment and WSUS integrated Count of hosts with attestation mode as TPM Count of hosts with attestation mode as AD Count of CI policies existing in a library Count of hosts being managed Count of DMZ hosts being managed Count of Hyper-V hosts Count of clusters Count of nontrusted hosts being managed Information if customer is managing the VMware hosts Minimum, maximum, and average host cluster size Minimum, maximum, and average host memory size Minimum, maximum, and average VMware cluster size
Job related	Indication if jobs are user initiated or background jobs Count of the number of times a job description type has failed Number of times job has run Maximum, minimum, and average number of jobs run per day
Dynamic Optimization Settings	Count of hosts considered for dynamic optimization Count of hosts considered for power optimization Minimum, maximum, and average frequency to run dynamic optimization
Network	Count of Edge NAT instances Count of Edge forwarding instances Count of Edge S2S instances Count of VPN connections Count of tenants per multitenant gateway Count of Edge load balancers Count of Edge load balancer VIP templates Count of NC managed VPN connections Count of NC managed IPsec VPN connections Count of NC managed GRE VPN connections Count of NC managed L3 VPN connections
IP Pool	Count of IPV4 and IPV6 address pools Maximum size of IPV4 and IPV6 pools Total reserved IPV4 and IPV6 addresses Average pool usage size Count of NC managed IPV4 and IPV6 addresses
Library	Count of library shared being managed Count of VHDs and VHDXs registered in the library Count of service templates registered in the library Count of VM templates registered in the library Count of host groups belonging to the library Count of equivalent resources registered in the library
Logical Network	Count of Logical networks Count of logical network definitions Count of one connected network managed by network controller Count of VLAN based independent networks Count of private VLAN networks
Policy Distribution	Minimum and maximum policy RTT Policy errors
Service Objects	Count of service instances Count of deployed service instances Count of failed service instances Count of servicing failed service instances Count of service instances deployed to non Hyper-V host groups Count of VM roles Count of applications Count of script applications Maximum, minimum, and average tiers per service Count of services using application hosts Count of services using SQL application Count of services using Web deploy application Maximum, minimum, and average number of applications per customer, computer tier Count of service tiers with load balancers Count of services deployed on VMware
VM	Count of HA VM instances Count of Non-HA VM instances Count of HA VM instances on clustered storage Count of HA VM instances on SMB share Count of DiffDisk VM instances Count of Hyper-V VM instances Count of VMware VM instances Count of OS type, OS name, OS edition, OS version on VMs List of possible VM states Count of VMs per state
VM OS	OS version of VMs OS name of the VMs OS edition of VMs OS Type of VMs Count of VMs for various OS List of possible VM states Count of VMs for each state
VMM Settings	Indication of highly available installation of VMM Indication if VMM is upgraded VMM SKU type Indication of VMM running as domain account Indication if VMM DB is on remote server Indication if VMM is running on a VM Indication if VMM is running on a default path Count of VM networks Count of VM subnets Count of NC managed VM networks and VM subnets
Host OS	OS version on the host OS name of the host SKU type of host Indication of Nano type host Number of hosts with specific OS
Storage Inventory	Count of all storage providers Count of SMIS CIMXML, SMIS WMI, Native Windows, SMP WMI storage providers Count of providers managing arrays Count of providers managing file shares Count of providers managing both arrays and file shares Count of providers managing FC fabric Count of storage classification defined by user Count of disks where custom classification is used to override inherited disk classification Count of disks where custom classification is used to override pool derived classification Count of fabric classifications Count of primary VMs for which HVR is enabled out of band Count of VMs for which HVR is enabled in band Count of LUN based protected replication groups created Out of Band Count of volume-based protected replication groups created Out of Band Count of volume-based protected replication groups created through Azure Site Recovery Indication if VMM is configured to be connected to Azure Site Recovery Count of QoS policies created in VMM Count of VMs with QoS policies applied
Storage Hyper Converged cluster	Count of Hyper converged clusters Count of pools Count of virtual disks Count of volumes Count of local disks attached Average local disk size attached
SAN Arrays	Count of pools in storage array Count of managed pools in storage array Count of managed LUNs in all managed pools per array List of array capabilities Indication if array also has associated file share
Storage Hosts	Count of storage hosts or clusters Name of storage aggregate collection Maximum, minimum, average, median, and mode values of storage aggregate of collector
File server storage	List of total file shares on file server List of managed shares on file server Indication if there is Calabria file share capability List of associated storage array capabilities List of SMB file share dialect supported by file server
Telemetry Opt out	Indication if Telemetry is opted out