If you join the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects data from View and vCenter Server fields that describe virtual machines. Fields containing sensitive information are made anonymous.
Description |
Is This Field Made Anonymous? |
Example Value |
|---|---|---|
The machine was marked as dirty. The virtual machine was used when useonce=true, and therefore should not accept new sessions |
No |
True or false |
Mapping of devices to change IDs |
No |
A set of IDs such as the following: 2000=01874583;01874583&2016=3910f513;3910f513 |
An identifier for the machine that is used to correlate data |
No |
vm-10 |
Sysprep customization is used for the guest operating system |
No |
True or false |
Timeout value. The period of time before the machine is disconnected. |
No |
Time |
A random ID for the View Agent for this machine |
No |
GUID |
Miscellaneous configuration values |
No |
Integers and booleans (true or false) |
View LDAP identifier for the previous View Composer persistent disk |
No |
LDAP entry |
Thinapps that are entitled to the machine |
Yes |
None |
Thinapps that are pending an uninstallation |
Yes |
None |
Thinapps that are installed in the machine |
Yes |
None |
The state of the machine |
No |
Undefined, Pre-provisioned, Cloning, Cloning error, Customizing, Ready, Deleting, Maintenance, Error, or Logout |
Timestamp of when customization started |
No |
Integer |
The machine is powered on for customization |
No |
Integer. The values are 0 or 1. |
The machine is powered on |
No |
True or false |
The machine is suspended |
No |
True or false |
The machine state is in transition |
No |
True or false |
The machine is configured |
No |
True or false |
The path to the virtual machine in vCenter Server |
Yes |
None |
Customization template used to customize the machine |
Yes |
None |
View Composer linked clone ID for the machine |
No |
GUID of the linked clone |
The virtual machine missing in vCenter Server |
No |
True or false |
Number of times View tried to power off the machine |
No |
Integer |
Status of CBRC (View Storage Accelerator) |
No |
Off, Current, Out of date, or Error |
Time of the latest CBRC refresh |
No |
Date |
Time of the latest CBRC error |
No |
Integer |
Time of the latest incomplete attempt to configure CBRC |
No |
Integer |
The version of View Agent installed on the machine |
No |
6.0.0-551711 |
View Persona Management is enabled on the machine |
No |
True or false |
Last amount, in bytes, of machine disk space reclaimed (if using SE Sparse format) |
No |
|
Time of last space reclamation |
No |
Timestamp |
Description |
Is This Field Made Anonymous? |
Example Value |
|---|---|---|
The virtual machine hardware version |
No |
v8 |
The amount of RAM that is allocated to the virtual machine |
No |
1024 |
The number of virtual CPUs that are configured in the virtual machine |
No |
Integer |
The operating system installed on the virtual machine |
No |
Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows 8 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit),and so on |