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If you allow active transfers to finish, View Transfer Server enters a Pending state. When the current disk
transfer is completed, View Transfer Server enters maintenance mode.
NOTE Allowing active transfers to finish ensures that the current disk is transferred. However, virtual
machines contain multiple disks. A transfer operation such as a desktop checkout might not be completed
if no other View Transfer Server instances are available to transfer any remaining disks. When a View
Transfer Server instance is taken out of maintenance mode, suspended transfers can be resumed.
5 Click OK.
What to do next
When you are ready to take View Transfer Server out of maintenance mode, select the View Transfer Server
instance and click Exit Maintenance Mode. Suspended transfers can be resumed and new data transfers can
start.
Improve Transfer Performance Over a WAN on Windows Server 2003
In a WAN environment with high network latency, you can enhance transfer performance by increasing the
sizes of TCP send and receive windows.
When View Transfer Server is installed on Windows Server 2008, the TCP send and receive windows are
increased to 640KB by default. You do not have to reconfigure these values.
When View Transfer Server is installed on Windows Server 2003, you must manually set registry keys to
increase the TCP send and receive windows to 640KB.
Prerequisites
Verify that View Transfer Server is installed on a Windows Server 2003 operating system.
Procedure
1 Start the Windows Registry Editor on the Windows Server 2003 computer on which View Transfer Server
is installed.
2 Add two new registry keys called DefaultSendWindow and DefaultReceiveWindow to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, System, CurrentControlSet, Services, AFD, Parameters.
3 Set the DefaultSendWindow and DefaultReceiveWindow key values to 655360.
You must type a positive integer. The values are configured in bytes. The key types are REG_DWORD.
4 Restart View Transfer Server.
View Transfer Server Status
View Transfer Server can be in various states of operation and availability. In View Administrator, you can
track the status of View Transfer Server in the Transfer Servers pane on the View Configuration > Servers
page.
Table 14-1. View Transfer Server States During Normal Operations
Status Description
Ready View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository are configured and operating
properly.
Pending View Transfer Server is being added to View Manager or is exiting Maintenance mode.
View Connection Server is actively establishing a connection with View Transfer Server.
When the connection is made, View Transfer Server will be moved to an operational
state such as Ready.
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