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Hardware Health Service
The Hardware Health Service collects and analyses Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) sensor
metrics from hardware that runs ESXi.
Property Default Value Description
vws.loglevel Warning Level of details of the information
included in the logs.
Transfer Service Properties
The Transfer Service lets you move content, such as VM templates, scripts, and ISO images across sites and
vCenter Server instances. The Transfer Service has a set of congurable properties that you can change to
meet the needs of your virtual environment.
Property Default Value Description
Forced Flush to Output Interval 45 Interval between forced ushes to
output stream, measured in seconds.
Hp Client Buer Size 262144 Buer size of the HTTP client input
stream during transfers, measured in
bytes.
Hp Client Socket Timeout 180 Socket timeout of the HTTP client,
measured in seconds.
Hp Request-handling Timeout 120 Request handling timeout for HTTP
transfers, after which service
unavailable status is returned to client,
measured in seconds.
Hp Socket Buer Size 2048 Buer size of the HTTP client socket,
measured in bytes.
Intermediary I/O Stream Buer Size 131072 Maximum size of buer siing
between input and output streams
during a transfer, measured in bytes.
Maximum Bandwidth Consumption 0 Bandwidth usage threshold across all
transfers, measured in megabits per
second Mbps. 0 means unlimited
bandwidth.
Maximum Number of Concurrent
Priority Transfers
5 Concurrent transfer limit for priority
les. If exceeded, transfers are queued.
This threadpool is used only to
transfer priority objects.
Maximum Number of Concurrent
Transfers
20 Concurrent transfer limit. If exceeded,
transfers are queued.
NFC Connection Socket Timeout 120 Socket timeout for an NFC connection,
measured in seconds. An NFC
connection is opened only when
interacting with a datastore.
NFC Eager-zeroed Thick Disk Write
Timeout
5400 Eager-zeroed thick disk write timeout
for an NFC connection, measured in
seconds. This timeout must be larger
than the socket timeout of NFC
connection. An NFC connection is
opened only when interacting with
datastore.
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