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Note You must log in as a user with an Administrator or a Content library administrator role to change
the settings of the Content Library service.
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 configurable 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 flushes to output
stream, measured in seconds.
Http Client Buffer Size 262144 Buffer size of the HTTP client input stream
during transfers, measured in bytes.
Http Client Socket Timeout 180 Socket timeout of the HTTP client,
measured in seconds.
Http Request-handling Timeout 120 Request handling timeout for HTTP
transfers, after which service unavailable
status is returned to client, measured in
seconds.
Http Socket Buffer Size 2048 Buffer size of the HTTP client socket,
measured in bytes.
Intermediary I/O Stream Buffer Size 131072 Maximum size of buffer sitting 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 files. 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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