The best way to use the statistical data is through Unisphere for Vmax application. This application has all the built in graphing and also the different reports. You can also generate reports over time and at time intervals. The database can be backed up and imported into later versions as they emerge from EMC.  Unisphere can be installed in 2 ways. Either by deployment in an ESXI environment. [URL]  Or via an install option for something Like windows. The windows version will also need Solutions Enabler. The same goes for a Linux install also. [URL]
Would someone give me an overview of different types of statistics collection on DMX and VMAX?  I have enabled storstpd on host directly attached to VMAX and do not see any files created. My goal is to have some kind of historical data available to look back.  In below setup are there any files collected and stored anywhere? When I open a case with EMC for performance issue, without any of these files would they able to troubleshoot anything?  Symmetrix Command Line Interface (SYMCLI) Version V8.3.0.0 (Edit Level: 2252) built with SYMAPI Version V8.3.0.0 (Edit Level: 2252)  nbser#stordaemon show storstpd   Daemon State                                    : Running  Daemon Start Time                               : Tue Nov  1 15:06:30 2016  Version                                         : V8.3-2252 (0.0) [64-bit]  Auto-Restart by Watchdog                        : Enabled   Total Number of Connections                     : 2  Number of Active Connections                    : 0  Total Number of Requests                        : 0  IPC Authentication                              : ShMem    Daemon Runtime Info   ---------------------------------  Collect for Customer Service)                   : No  Number of Symmetrix Managers                    :     1  Number of Symmetrix Collectors                  :     1  Number of SPA Packagers                         :     0  Number of SPA Senders                           :     1  Number of RTC Packagers                         :     1  Number of Retention Managers                    :     1    Daemon Options   ---------------------------------  dmn_run_spa                                     : Enabled  dmn_run_rtc                                     : Enabled  dmn_root_location                               : /var/symapi/stp  dmn_symmids                                     : 2355  dmn_remote_mode                                 : Disabled  dmn_remote_address                              :  dmn_remote_port                                 : 2707  daemon_state                                    : running    STP Daemon Collection Options   ---------------------------------  dmn_retention_days                              :  60  dmn_disk_space_threshold                        :  80 %  dmn_archive_interval                            :   1 hours  dmn_sys_metrics                                 : Enabled  dmn_dev_metrics                                 : Enabled  dmn_dir_metrics                                 : Enabled  dmn_disk_metrics                                : Enabled  dmn_ext_disk_metrics                            : Enabled  dmn_port_metrics                                : Enabled  dmn_rdfa_metrics                                : Enabled  dmn_host_io_limits_metrics                      : Enabled  dmn_ors_metrics                                 : Enabled  dmn_cpt_metrics                                 : Enabled  dmn_rdfsys_metrics                              : Enabled  dmn_rdfdir_metrics                              : Enabled  dmn_rdfdev_metrics                              : Enabled  dmn_rdfgrp_metrics                              : Enabled  dmn_se_tcp_metrics                              : Disabled  dmn_se_nw_metrics                               : Disabled  dmn_se_nwi_metrics                              : Disabled  dmn_re_sg_metrics                               : Disabled  dmn_re_nwc_metrics                              : Disabled  dmn_tp_dev_metrics                              : Enabled  dmn_tp_metrics                                  : Enabled  dmn_dev_cache_metrics                           : Enabled  ############ nbser#ls -Rlrth /var/symapi/stp /var/symapi/stp: total 3 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root           4 Nov  1 15:06 spa  /var/symapi/stp/spa: total 6 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         651 Nov  1 09:26 spa_registrations_xml drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           2 Nov  1 15:06 DMF_0.0.0.0  /var/symapi/stp/spa/DMF_0.0.0.0:   Thank you, neoseer.
stats collection: vmax storstpd.