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Name | Description | Default | Current | Min | Max | ESXCLI |
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CBRC.DCacheMemReserved | Memory consumed by CBRC Data Cache (in MB) | 400 | 400 | 100 | 32768 | True |
CBRC.Enable | Enable Content Based Read Cache | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
COW.COWMaxHeapSizeMB | Maximum size (in MB) to which the COW heap is allowed to grow | 192 | 192 | 192 | 256 | True |
COW.COWMaxREPageCacheszMB | Maximum size (in MB) of VMFSSparse metadata cache size before cache eviction kicks in | 256 | 256 | 32 | 512 | True |
COW.COWMinREPageCacheszMB | Minimum size (in MB) of VMFSSparse metadata cache size. Valid when cache eviction is enabled. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 512 | True |
COW.COWREPageCacheEviction | VMFSSparse metadata cache eviction: 0 - disabled, 1 enabled | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Config.Defaults.host.TAAworkaround | Enable mitigation of TSX Asynchronous Abort (CVE-2019-11135). | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.Defaults.monitor.if_pschange_mc_workaround | Enable workaround for Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (CVE-2018-12207). | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.Defaults.security.host.ruissl | Require SSL to be used when communicating with the host over port 902. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.Defaults.vGPU.consolidation | Assignment policy to place shared passthru graphics VMs on same physical GPU until full. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.Etc.issue | Messages that are displayed prior to an SSH or local shell login. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.Etc.motd | Messages that are displayed following an SSH or local shell login. | TOO LONG TO PRINT | N/A | N/A | False | |
Config.GlobalSettings.guest.commands.sharedPolicyRefCount | Reference count to enable guest operations. | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.distributedTracing | Logging level for the loggers related to distributed tracing services. | none | N/A | N/A | False | |
Config.HostAgent.level[Hbrsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to HBR services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Hostsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to Host services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Proxysvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to proxy services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Snmpsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to SNMP services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Statssvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to Stats services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Vcsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggres related to VC services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Vimsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to Virtual infrastructure management services. | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Config.HostAgent.level[Vmsvc].logLevel | Logging level for the loggers related to VM services. | verbose | N/A | N/A | False | |
Config.HostAgent.log.level | Controls the global log level. | info | N/A | N/A | False | |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroup | Active Directory group name that is automatically granted administrator privileges on the ESX. NOTE: Changing the group name does not remove the permissions of the previous group. | ESX Admins | ESX Admins | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroupAutoAdd | Controls whether the group specified by 'esxAdminsGroup' is automatically granted administrator permission. NOTE: Changing this to false does not remove any permissions already granted to the group. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.hostsvc.esxAdminsGroupUpdateInterval | Interval between checks for whether the group specified by 'esxAdminsGroup' has appeared in Active Directory, in minutes. | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.disableRemoteEsxcli | Enables or disables remote execution of esxcli commands. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.enableMob | Enables or disables the Debug Managed Object Browser for the ESXi host. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.webServer.enableWebscriptLauncher | Controls the availability of webscript launcher page. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vimsvc.authValidateInterval | Number of minutes between each validation of all known users and groups - set to zero to disable validation. | 1440 | 1440 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vimsvc.disableHostProfileApi | Enables or disables Host Profile pyEngine APIs. Restart host agent service (hostd) to adopt new value. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vimsvc.httpNfcLeaseTimeout | Number of seconds until an HTTP NFC lease times out due to inactivity. Applies to new leases only. | 300 | 300 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vimsvc.userSearch.maxResults | Maximum number of users and groups to display in the Add Permissions dialog - set to zero to disable the limit. | 100 | 100 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vimsvc.userSearch.maxTimeSeconds | Number of seconds to wait for a search for users and groups to return results - set to zero to disable the timeout. | 20 | 20 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vmsvc.enforceMaxRegisteredVms | Enables enforcing the limitation on the number of registered virtual machines in the inventory. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vmsvc.filterExtraConfigHotEdit | Filter out extraConfig keys being modified that are not on a pre-defined list of allowed keys when a virtual machine is powered on. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vmsvc.guestWatchdogTimeout | Number of seconds to wait for the Guest OS to shutdown. | 900 | 900 | 1 | 3600 | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vmsvc.productLockerWatchInterval | Interval between checks for whether the product locker files are changed, in seconds. Set to -1 to disable checks. | 300 | 300 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.plugins.vmsvc.vsanVmRefreshRetryInterval | Number of seconds to wait for retrying vSAN VM refresh, option value '0' means disabling retry logic. | 1800 | 1800 | 0 | 3600 | False |
Config.HostAgent.ssl.keyStore.allowAny | Allow any certificates to be added to the host CA store. Disables CA checks. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.ssl.keyStore.allowSelfSigned | Allow non-CA self-signed certificates to be added to the host CA store. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.ssl.keyStore.discardLeaf | Discard leaf certificates when adding to CA store. Leaf certificates in a CA store are generally a misconfiguration. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.ssl.minPrivateKeyLength | The minimum length in bits to be used when generating a new host private key. | RSA-2048 | N/A | N/A | False | |
Config.HostAgent.ticketing.thumbprintTypes | Hash algorithms with which to generate host thumbprints, specified as a comma-separated list. Options are sha1, sha256. If no hash is specified, all hashes that are considered secure are enabled. | sha1 | sha1 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.vmacore.soap.maxSessionCount | Maximum number of authenticated VIM API sessions at any given time - set to zero to disable limit. | 500 | 500 | N/A | N/A | False |
Config.HostAgent.vmacore.soap.sessionTimeout | Number of minutes until a VIM API session times out due to inactivity - set to zero to disable timeout. Applies to new sessions only. | 30 | 30 | N/A | N/A | False |
Cpu.AllowWideVsmp | Allow VMs with more VCPUs than host PCPUs, 0 to disable | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Cpu.BoundLagQuanta | Number of global quanta before bound lag | 8 | 8 | 1 | 100 | True |
Cpu.CommRateThreshold | threshold for inter-sched-context rate above which the contexts are considered to be related (in num/sec) | 500 | 500 | 0 | 50000 | True |
Cpu.CoschedCostartThreshold | costart threshold in usec, costart threshold should be less than costopThreshold | 2000 | 2000 | 0 | 100000 | True |
Cpu.CoschedCostopThreshold | maximum skew between vcpus in usec, 0 to disable | 3000 | 3000 | 0 | 100000 | True |
Cpu.CoschedCrossCall | 0: disable cosched on crosscall; 1: enable cosched on crosscall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Cpu.CoschedHandoffLLC | 0: handoff by switching pcpu; 1: handoff to LLC if possible | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Cpu.CoschedHandoffSkip | only skip handoff if ready time is smaller than this threshold, in usec, 0 to allow skip always | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1000 | True |
Cpu.CoschedPollUsec | interval between coscheduling skew checks, in usec | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.CreditAgePeriod | Period in milliseconds | 3000 | 3000 | 1000 | 10000 | True |
Cpu.FairnessRebalancePcpus | max number of PCPUs to be considered when doing fairness rebalance, 0 to disable | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 | True |
Cpu.HTRebalancePeriod | average milliseconds between opportunities for a pcpu to migrate vcpus from within a core | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.HTStolenAgeThreshold | the amount of htStolen time a vcpu can keep without being aged (in seconds) | 8 | 8 | 0 | 500 | True |
Cpu.HTWholeCoreThreshold | a vcpu with vtime falling behind by this threshold (in ms) is eligible to use the whole core (HT only), 0 to disable (may violate resource settings) | 800 | 800 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.HostRebalancePeriod | average milliseconds between opportunities for a pcpu to migrate vcpus from within the whole system, 0 to disable | 2000 | 2000 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.L2RebalancePeriod | average milliseconds between opportunities for a pcpu to migrate vcpus from within the shared L2 cache, 0 to disable | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.L3RebalancePeriod | average milliseconds between opportunities for a pcpu to migrate vcpus from within the shared L3 cache, 0 to disable | 20 | 20 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.LimitEnforcementThreshold | Only allows low-vtime children ro run when a group/VM's vtimeLimit is smaller than the global virtual time by less than this threshold (in ms), 0 to disable | 200 | 200 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Cpu.MaxSampleRateLg | Sampling system services at most (2^MaxSampleRateLg) times a second | 7 | 7 | 1 | 15 | True |
Cpu.NonTimerWakeupRate | Disable P state if the running vcpu's non-timer wakeup rate is higher than this threshold, 0 to disable | 500 | 500 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.PackageRebalancePeriod | average milliseconds between opportunities for a pcpu to migrate vcpus from within a package, 0 to disable | 2000 | 2000 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Cpu.PcpuMigrateIdlePcpus | max number of PCPUs to be considered when doing pcpu idle rebalance, 0 to disable | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 | True |
Cpu.Quantum | Quantum in milliseconds | 200 | 200 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Cpu.UseMwait | use MWAIT vs. HLT in the idle loop; 0: use HLT, 1: use MWAIT if possible, 2: choose by cpu type | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | True |
Cpu.VMAdmitCheckPerVcpuMin | Perform additional admission control check that per virtual CPU virtual machine minimum does not exceed the speed of a single physical CPU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Cpu.WakeupMigrateIdlePcpus | max number of PCPUs to be considered when doing wakeup idle rebalance, 0 to disable | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 | True |
DCUI.Access | One or more comma-separated local users which are granted unconditional access to DCUI, even if they don't have administrator role on the host. | root | root | N/A | N/A | False |
DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit | Enable hardware accelerated VMFS data initialization (requires compliant hardware) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove | Enable hardware accelerated VMFS data movement (requires compliant hardware) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
DataMover.MaxHeapSize | Maximum size of the heap in MB used for data movement | 64 | 64 | 16 | 256 | True |
Digest.AlgoType | Digest Crypto Hash Type (1=SHA-1, 2=SHA-256). | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | True |
Digest.BlockSize | Blocksize in the original VMDK to compute crypto hash codes. In pages of 4K size. Value needs to be power of 2. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | True |
Digest.CollisionEnabled | Enable collision detection (0=disabled, 1=enabled) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
DirentryCache.MaxDentryPerObj | Maximum directory entries cached per directory | 15000 | 15000 | 60 | 30000 | True |
Disk.AllowUsbClaimedAsSSD | Permit claim rules to mark USB disks as SSD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.ApdTokenRetryCount | APD Token Retry Count | 25 | 25 | 10 | 99999 | True |
Disk.AutoremoveOnPDL | Autoremove paths to a disk that is in PDL (Permanent Device Loss) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.BandwidthCap | cap on disk bandwidth (KB/s) usage | 4294967294 | 4294967294 | 10 | 4294967294 | True |
Disk.DelayOnBusy | Delay in milliseconds for completion of commands with a BUSY status | 400 | 400 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Disk.DeviceEnableIOLatencyMsgs | Enable or disable storage latency-related error messages from PSA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.DeviceReclaimTime | The number of seconds between device re-claim attempts | 300 | 300 | 0 | 31536000 | True |
Disk.Disable4knSSD | Disable use of 4kn SSDs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.DiskDelayPDLHelper | Delay PDL helper in secs | 10 | 10 | 0 | 300 | True |
Disk.DiskMaxIOSize | Max Disk READ/WRITE I/O size before splitting (in KB) | 32767 | 32767 | 32 | 32767 | True |
Disk.DiskReservationThreshold | Time window within which refcounted reservations on a device are permitted (in msec) | 45 | 45 | 0 | 3000 | True |
Disk.DiskRetryPeriod | Retry period in milliseconds for a command with retry status | 2000 | 2000 | 500 | 50000 | True |
Disk.DumpMaxRetries | Max number of I/O retries during disk dump | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1000 | True |
Disk.DumpPollDelay | Number of microseconds to wait between polls during a disk dump. | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 100000 | True |
Disk.DumpPollMaxRetries | Max number of device poll retries during disk dump | 10000 | 10000 | 1 | 100000 | True |
Disk.EnableNaviReg | Enable automatic NaviAgent registration with EMC CLARiiON and Invista | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.FailDiskRegistration | Fail device registration if disk has only standby paths and supports only implicit asymmetric logical unit access. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.FastPathRestoreInterval | Time interval (in msec) to monitor the IO latency to evaluate eligibility for fast-path in PSA. | 100 | 100 | 10 | 1000 | True |
Disk.IdleCredit | Amount of idle credit that a virtual machine can gain for I/O requests | 32 | 32 | 1 | 512 | True |
Disk.MaxLUN | Only SCSI LUNs with LUN ID values below this value will be scanned | 1024 | 1024 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
Disk.MaxNumIOIntervals | Maximum number of IO intervals per device that can be stored in order to detect overlapping IOs to 4Kn disks | 1024 | 1024 | 64 | 65535 | True |
Disk.MaxResetLatency | Delay in milliseconds before logging warnings and spawning new reset worlds if a reset is overdue or taking too long | 2000 | 2000 | 500 | 600000 | True |
Disk.NmpMaxCmdExtension | Increase the maximum number of commands to be processed at once in NMP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000000000 | True |
Disk.PVSCSIEnablePreemption | Enable PVSCSI Preemption. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.PathEvalTime | The number of seconds between FC path evaluations | 300 | 300 | 0 | 31536000 | True |
Disk.PreventVMFSOverwrite | Prevent overwriting VMFS partitions | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.QFullSampleSize | I/O samples to monitor for detecting non-transient queue full condition. Should be nonzero to enable queue depth throttling. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | True |
Disk.QFullThreshold | BUSY or QFULL threshold, upon which LUN queue depth will be throttled. Should be <= QFullSampleSize if throttling is enabled. | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16 | True |
Disk.ReqCallThreshold | Threshold in number of pending requests before calling into vmkernel to process the requests | 8 | 8 | 1 | 129 | True |
Disk.ResetLatency | Delay in milliseconds between reset thread wakeups | 1000 | 1000 | 100 | 600000 | True |
Disk.ResetMaxRetries | Maximum number of bus reset retries. Set to 0 for no limit. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Disk.ResetOverdueLogPeriod | Delay in seconds between logs of overdue reset | 60 | 60 | 10 | 86400 | True |
Disk.ResetPeriod | Delay in seconds between bus resets retries | 30 | 30 | 1 | 3600 | True |
Disk.ResetThreadExpires | Life in seconds of an inactive reset handle thread | 1800 | 1800 | 0 | 86400 | True |
Disk.ResetThreadMax | Maximum number of reset handler threads | 16 | 16 | 1 | 16 | True |
Disk.ResetThreadMin | Minimum number of reset handler threads | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | True |
Disk.RetryUnitAttention | Retry all SCSI commands that return a unit attention error | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.ReturnCCForNoSpace | Return CC 0x7/0x27/0x7 in the event where a backing datastore has run out of space as opposed to posting a monitor event to halt the VM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.SchedCostUnit | IO Scheduler block size for accounting | 32768 | 32768 | 4096 | 262144 | True |
Disk.SchedQCleanupInterval | Time interval (in secs) to cleanup per device unused schedQ list (default = 5 minutes). | 300 | 300 | 0 | 31536000 | True |
Disk.SchedQControlSeqReqs | Number of consecutive requests from a virtual machine required to raise the outstanding commands to maximum | 128 | 128 | 0 | 2048 | True |
Disk.SchedQControlVMSwitches | Number of switches between commands issued by different virtual machines required to reduce outstanding commands to CONFIG_DISK_CIF | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2048 | True |
Disk.SchedQPriorityPercentage | Percentage of priority commands to serve from priority queue | 80 | 80 | 10 | 100 | True |
Disk.SchedQuantum | Number of consecutive requests from one world | 8 | 8 | 1 | 64 | True |
Disk.SchedReservationBurst | Permit I/O bursts in mclock scheduler with reservations. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.SchedulerWithReservation | Disk I/O scheduler (0:default 1:mclock) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.SectorMaxDiff | Distance in sectors at which the disk BW schedules affinity stops | 2000 | 2000 | 0 | 2000000 | True |
Disk.SharesHigh | Shares for high disk priority | 2000 | 2000 | 100 | 10000 | True |
Disk.SharesLow | Shares for low disk priority | 500 | 500 | 100 | 10000 | True |
Disk.SharesNormal | Shares for normal disk priority | 1000 | 1000 | 100 | 10000 | True |
Disk.SkipResetNoCIF | Do not send Device/Virt RESET if No Cmds in Flight | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.SllThrottleTime | Time (in msecs) I/Os to SLLs will be throttled in the event of a TASK_SET_FULL being received. | 800 | 800 | 25 | 3000 | True |
Disk.SupportSparseLUN | Support for sparse LUNs if set to one | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.ThroughputCap | Cap on disk throughput (IO/s) usage | 4294967294 | 4294967294 | 10 | 4294967294 | True |
Disk.UseDeviceReset | Use device reset (instead of bus reset) to reset a SCSI device | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.UseIoPool | A bitmask: 0x1 - adapter submission pool, 0x2 - device completion pool, 0x4 - device queueing pool. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | True |
Disk.UseLunReset | Use LUN reset (instead of device.bus reset) to reset a SCSI device | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.UseReportLUN | Use the REPORT LUN command to increase scanning speed for devices | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.VSCSICoalesceCount | Frequency with which the coalesce callback is called. | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 100000 | True |
Disk.VSCSIDisableNvmeRetry | Disable vNVME Retries in VSCSI. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Disk.VSCSIHaltPollInterval | When vCPU halt we poll VSCSI vHBAs for work, but at most do so this often. Time is in microseconds. | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Disk.VSCSIPollPeriod | Time in microseconds between VSCSI polls. | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 99999999 | True |
Disk.VSCSIResvCmdRetryInSecs | Time (in secs) to retry on transient errors for Reservation commands for MSCS CAB configs. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60 | True |
Disk.VSCSIWriteSameBurstSize | Max number of split IOs per write same request. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | True |
FSS.FSSLightWeightProbe | Enable light-weight efficient probe of ESX supported datastores | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.BindToVmknic | Bind the FT socket to a specific vmknic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.FTCptConcurrentSend | Send non-diff pages in parallel with diffing rather than after | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.FTCptDelayCheckpoint | Delay checkpoint if no network packet waiting | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
FT.FTCptDiffCap | Max percent pages via diffs (EXPERIMENTAL, failover will not work if not 100) | 100 | 100 | 0 | 100 | True |
FT.FTCptDiffThreads | Number of threads for diffing pages | 6 | 6 | 1 | 16 | True |
FT.FTCptDisableFailover | Disable failovers (testing only) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | True |
FT.FTCptDiskWriteTimeout | Time in milliseconds for backup site to wait for a disk I/O to complete | 3000 | 3000 | 10 | 60000 | True |
FT.FTCptDontDelayPkts | Do not delay network packets - for testing only | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.FTCptDontSendPages | Do not send over modified pages - for testing only | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.FTCptEpochList | List of potential epochs to try in order of increasing value | 5,10,20,100 | 5,10,20,100 | N/A | N/A | True |
FT.FTCptEpochSample | Single epoch sampling time in ms | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 60000 | True |
FT.FTCptEpochWait | Wait in ms after epoch sampling | 8000 | 8000 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
FT.FTCptIORetryExtraInterval | Extra sleep interval (in ms) between retries on disk I/O error | 200 | 200 | 10 | 2000 | True |
FT.FTCptIORetryInterval | Sleep interval (in ms) between retries on disk I/O error | 10 | 10 | 10 | 2000 | True |
FT.FTCptIORetryTimes | Maximum retries on disk I/O error | 15 | 15 | 5 | 50 | True |
FT.FTCptLogTimeout | Time in milliseconds to wait for FT log entries (read or write) | 8000 | 8000 | 500 | 30000 | True |
FT.FTCptMaxPktsDelay | Max number of packets in the delayed queue before forcing a checkpoint | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10000 | True |
FT.FTCptMinInterval | Time in milliseconds to wait between two forced checkpoints | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1000 | True |
FT.FTCptNetDelayNoCpt | Delay to impose on virtual machine network output in ms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5000 | True |
FT.FTCptNumConnections | # of data connections to use for page sending | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | True |
FT.FTCptNumaIndex | Index dirty pages by NUMA node. Workers will use the index to prefer local work. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.FTCptPagePolicy | Page placement policy for side data. < 2^16: Use a specific node mask, 0x10000: Put pages anywhere, 0x10001: Match nodes with virtual machine, 0x10002: Avoid matching nodes with virtual machine | 65538 | 65538 | 1 | 65538 | True |
FT.FTCptPoweroff | Power off the Primary VM after the next checkpoint | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | True |
FT.FTCptRcvBufSize | TCP receive buffer size for the backup | 562140 | 562140 | 131080 | 16777216 | True |
FT.FTCptSndBufSize | TCP send buffer size for the Primary VM | 562140 | 562140 | 131080 | 16777216 | True |
FT.FTCptStartTimeout | Time in milliseconds for backup site to wait for data for the next checkpoint | 90000 | 90000 | 1000 | 90000 | True |
FT.FTCptStatsInterval | Time in milliseconds between stat printing | 30 | 30 | 0 | 600 | True |
FT.FTCptThreadPolicy | Policy for placing helper threads. < 2^16: Use a fixed NUMA node mask, 0x10000: Put threads anywhere, 0x10001: Match threads to a dynamic node index | 65536 | 65536 | 1 | 65537 | True |
FT.FTCptVcpuMinUsage | VCPU usage in percentage below which the VM will be considered for forced checkpoint | 40 | 40 | 0 | 100 | True |
FT.FTCptWaitOnSocket | Wait when socket is empty | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
FT.Vmknic | Vmknic for FT vmkernel VNIC | N/A | N/A | True | ||
HBR.ChecksumIoSize | Size in blocks of a checksum read I/O | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1024 | True |
HBR.ChecksumMaxIo | Maximum number of I/O chunks read in parallel for checksum | 8 | 8 | 1 | 256 | True |
HBR.ChecksumPerSlice | Maximum number of I/O chunks we read in each slice for checksum | 2 | 2 | 1 | 64 | True |
HBR.ChecksumRegionSize | Size in blocks of one checksum region, corresponding to one network request | 256 | 256 | 1 | 4096 | True |
HBR.ChecksumUseAllocInfo | Use disk allocation info to help speed up the checksum process | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.ChecksumUseChecksumInfo | Use disk checksum info to help speed up transfering valid blocks of data. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.ChecksumZoneSize | Size in regions of one checksum zone for which allocation information will be cached | 32768 | 32768 | 32 | 1048576 | True |
HBR.CopySnapDiskMaxExtentCount | Number of extents for a single snapshot disk that can be copied in parallel | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.CopySnapFidHashBuckets | Number of hash buckets to use to track the snapshot disks open to copy to demand log. | 256 | 256 | 1 | 1024 | True |
HBR.DemandlogCompletedHashBuckets | Number of hash buckets to use to track extents that have been written to the demand log. | 16384 | 16384 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.DemandlogExtentHashBuckets | Number of hash buckets to use to track extents that haven't been read. | 16384 | 16384 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.DemandlogIoTimeoutSecs | Timeout for IOs for demand log operations. | 120 | 120 | 0 | 1000 | True |
HBR.DemandlogReadRetries | Number of times to retry an internal read (for the demand log) before aborting the delta. | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1000 | True |
HBR.DemandlogRetryDelayMs | Delay in milliseconds for retrying a demand log write. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100000 | True |
HBR.DemandlogTransferIoSize | Size in blocks of a demandlog transfer read I/O | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16 | True |
HBR.DemandlogTransferMaxCompletion | Maximum number of demandlog chunks that are allowed in completion phase per disk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 512 | True |
HBR.DemandlogTransferMaxIo | Maximum number of demandlog transfer I/O chunks issued in parallel | 32 | 32 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.DemandlogTransferMaxNetwork | Maximum number of demandlog chunks transferred in parallel | 256 | 256 | 1 | 4096 | True |
HBR.DemandlogTransferPerSlice | Maximum number of demandlog chunks issued per slice | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.DemandlogWriteRetries | Number of times to retry a demand log write before aborting the delta. | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1000 | True |
HBR.DisconnectedEventDelayMs | Time to wait (while attempting reconnection) before posting a 'no connection to VR server' event | 60000 | 60000 | 100 | 600000 | True |
HBR.ErrThrottleChecksumIO | Throttle Checksum I/O errors. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.ErrThrottleDceRead | Throttle DCE Read errors. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.HbrBitmapAllocTimeoutMS | A timeout in MS for how long we will wait to allocate a bitmap | 3000 | 3000 | 0 | 10000 | True |
HBR.HbrBitmapVMMaxStorageGB | An estimation of the maximum storage allocated per VM in gigabytes | 65536 | 65536 | 100 | 131072 | True |
HBR.HbrDemandLogIOPerVM | Number of concurrent demand log copies per VM | 64 | 64 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrLowerExtentBreakGB | Disks with capacity between the min extent break and this number of gigabytes will have the lower extent size. | 8192 | 8192 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.HbrLowerExtentSizeKB | Lower extent size used for disks in kilobytes. | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrMaxExtentSizeKB | Maximum extent size in kilobytes. Used for disks with capacity over the upper extent break. | 64 | 64 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrMaxGuestXferWhileDeltaMB | Maximum single SCSI command transfer size (in megabytes) that will be tolerated while a delta is taking place. | 1024 | 1024 | 256 | 3072 | True |
HBR.HbrMaxUnmapExtents | Maximum expected number of extents for SCSI UNMAP commands. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100000 | True |
HBR.HbrMaxUnmapsInFlight | Maximum expected number of SCSI UNMAP commands in flight on a single disk. | 128 | 128 | 0 | 1048576 | True |
HBR.HbrMaxUpdateSizeKB | Maximum size of a single network update in kilobytes. | 128 | 128 | 64 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrMinExtentBreakGB | Disks with capacity under this number of gigabytes will have the min extent size. | 2048 | 2048 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.HbrMinExtentSizeKB | Minimum extent size used for disks in kilobytes. | 8 | 8 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrOptimizeFullSync | Skip transfer of changed blocks during full sync to avoid sending them twice between the full sync and the subsequent delta. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.HbrResourceHeapPerVMSizeKB | The additional amount of memory in KB per VM to add to the resource heap size | 128 | 128 | 0 | 4096 | True |
HBR.HbrResourceHeapSizeMB | A base value in MB for the size of the resource heap | 3 | 3 | 2 | 256 | True |
HBR.HbrResourceHeapUtilization | Expected usable percentage of the resource heap (minus overheads, fragmentation) | 95 | 95 | 1 | 200 | True |
HBR.HbrResourceMaxCompletionContexts | The maximum number of resource contexts allowed in completion phase for all VMs. | 8192 | 8192 | 16 | 16384 | True |
HBR.HbrResourceMaxDiskContexts | The maximum number of resource contexts allowed in disk phase for all VMs. | 64 | 64 | 16 | 8192 | True |
HBR.HbrRuntimeHeapMaxBaseMB | A base value in MB for the maximum size of the runtime heap | 1 | 1 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrRuntimeHeapMinBaseMB | A base value in MB for the minimum size of the runtime heap | 1 | 1 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrStaticHeapMaxBaseMB | A base value in MB for the maximum size of the static heap | 726 | 726 | 1 | 3072 | True |
HBR.HbrStaticHeapMinBaseMB | A base value in MB for the minimum size of the static heap | 1 | 1 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HbrThrottleGenericErrResetTime | Time in MS between the last logged generic HBR error and the throttle reset. | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 65536 | True |
HBR.HbrUpperExtentBreakGB | Disks with capacity between the lower extent break and this number of gigabytes will have the upper extent size. | 32768 | 32768 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.HbrUpperExtentSizeKB | Upper extent size used for disks in kilobytes. | 32 | 32 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.HelperQueueMaxRequests | Maximum number of helper requests the helper queue can support | 8192 | 8192 | 128 | 16384 | True |
HBR.HelperQueueMaxWorlds | Maximum number of world processing helper queue requests | 8 | 8 | 1 | 16 | True |
HBR.LocalReadIoTimeoutSecs | Timeout for IOs for dce local reads. | 120 | 120 | 0 | 1000 | True |
HBR.MigrateFlushTimerSecs | Time between attempts to flush the state to the persistent file during migration. | 3 | 3 | 1 | 600 | True |
HBR.NetworkUseCubic | Use the cubic TCP congestion algorithm for HBR sockets | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.NetworkerRecvHashBuckets | Number of hash buckets to use to track commands waiting to receive a response. | 64 | 64 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.OpportunisticBlockListSize | Number of blocks to keep around in a LRU list for opportunistic replication | 4000 | 4000 | 500 | 10000 | True |
HBR.ProgressReportIntervalMs | Interval between per-disk progress updates to hostd | 5000 | 5000 | 1000 | 600000 | True |
HBR.PsfIoTimeoutSecs | Timeout for IOs for persistent state file/demand log metadata. | 300 | 300 | 0 | 1000 | True |
HBR.ReconnectFailureDelaySecs | Additional delay in seconds added per reconnection failure for a session | 10 | 10 | 10 | 300 | True |
HBR.ReconnectMaxDelaySecs | Maximum delay in seconds between reconnection attempts for a session | 90 | 90 | 30 | 300 | True |
HBR.ResourceServerHashBuckets | Number of hash buckets to use to track remote HBR servers. | 8 | 8 | 1 | 65536 | True |
HBR.RetryMaxDelaySecs | Maximum server request retry delay in seconds (for non-fatal errors) | 5 | 5 | 1 | 120 | True |
HBR.RetryMinDelaySecs | Minimum server request retry delay in seconds (for non-fatal errors) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60 | True |
HBR.SyncTransferRetrySleepSecs | Time in seconds to wait after a failure before retrying a sync operation. | 5 | 5 | 1 | 600 | True |
HBR.TransferDiskMaxCompletion | Maximum number of blocks that are allowed in the completion phase per disk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 512 | True |
HBR.TransferDiskMaxIo | Maximum number of blocks that will be read in parallel | 32 | 32 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.TransferDiskMaxNetwork | Maximum number of blocks that will be transferred in parallel | 2048 | 2048 | 1 | 4096 | True |
HBR.TransferDiskPerSlice | Maximum number of blocks that will be read in each slice | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.TransferFileExtentSize | Chunk size for config file transfers | 8192 | 8192 | 512 | 1048576 | True |
HBR.TransferMaxContExtents | Maximum number of contiguous extents that will be coalesced into a single update | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
HBR.UnmapOptimization | Use optimizations for SCSI Unmap. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.WireChecksum | Use wire checksums | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
HBR.XferBitmapCheckIntervalSecs | Time in seconds to wait before checking the transfer bitmap for availability of dirty blocks. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 600 | True |
Hpp.HppPReservationCmdRetryTime | Time (in secs) to retry on transient errors for Persistent reservation commands for MSCS CAB configs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 300 | True |
ISCSI.CloseIscsiConnOnTaskMgmtFailure | Close iSCSI connection on task management failure | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
ISCSI.MaxIoSizeKB | The maximum I/O size of Software iSCSI in KB. Requires rebooting the host. | 128 | 128 | 128 | 512 | True |
ISCSI.SocketRcvBufLenKB | Socket receive buffer length in KB for iSCSI connections | 256 | 256 | 256 | 6144 | True |
ISCSI.SocketSndBufLenKB | Socket send buffer length in KB for iSCSI connections | 600 | 600 | 600 | 6144 | True |
Irq.BestVcpuRouting | IRQ best virtual CPU routing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Irq.IRQActionAffinityWeight | relative weight for action-vcpu affinity | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | True |
Irq.IRQAvoidExclusive | Avoid placing interrupts on physical CPUs with exclusive affinity set. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Irq.IRQBHConflictWeight | relative weight for irq/BH conflict | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | True |
Irq.IRQRebalancePeriod | Time in milliseconds between attempts to rebalance interrupts | 50 | 50 | 10 | 20000 | True |
Irq.IRQVcpuConflictWeight | relative weight for irq/vcpu conflict | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | True |
LPage.LPageAlwaysTryForNPT | Enable always try to alloc large page for NPT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
LPage.LPageDefragEnable | Enable large page defragmentation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
LPage.LPageMarkLowNodes | Enable marking of nodes with low large pages free | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
LPage.MaxSharedPages | Maximum number of shared pages in a 2MB region that may be broken to back the region with a large page | 510 | 510 | 0 | 512 | True |
LPage.MaxSwappedPagesInitVal | Initial value for maximum number of swapped pages in a 2MB region that may be read to back the region with a large page | 10 | 10 | 0 | 512 | True |
LPage.freePagesThresholdForRemote | Maximum number of free small pages on local nodes to allow remote lpages | 2048 | 2048 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
LSOM.blkAttrCacheSizePercent | BlkAttr cache size percent growth rate with peak value (100%) caching almost all blkattrs for the diskgroup. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | True |
LSOM.enableLargeWb | Enable support for large write buffer for new disk groups | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
LSOM.lsomDeviceNeedsRepairCount | Number of times the device can be repaired for transient IO errors. | 3 | 3 | 0 | 64 | True |
LSOM.lsomEnableFullRebuildAvoidance | Enable LSOM full rebuild avoidance for transient IO errors. (0:disabled 1:enabled) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
LSOM.lsomEnableRebuildOnLSE | Remediate the device error by automatically re-creating diskgroup on encountering Medium Error on the device | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | True |
LSOM.lsomPlogEnableDeadmanTimer | Configuration if an I/O is stuck for a long time. (0:No Action 1:PSOD 2:Disk offline) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
LSOM.lsomRebuildOnEvacFailure | Remediate the device error by automatically re-creating diskgroup on encountering Unrecoverable Read Error on the device even if evacuation of the device failed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
LoadESX.generateLiveDump | Create a live dump if a Quick Boot attempt fails. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Mem.AllocGuestLargePage | Enable large page backing of guest memory | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Mem.CtlMaxPercent | Vmmemctl limit as percentage of virtual machine maximum size | 65 | 65 | 0 | 99 | True |
Mem.IdleTax | Idle memory tax rate | 75 | 75 | 0 | 99 | True |
Mem.IdleTaxType | idle tax type. 0=flat, 1=variable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Mem.MemCBTBitmapMaxAlloc | Maximum memory in MB to allocate for CBT bitmaps. | 1024 | 1024 | 256 | 2048 | True |
Mem.MemDefragClientsPerDir | Clients that are allowed to defrags per directory. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 512 | True |
Mem.MemEagerZero | Zero out userworld and guest memory pages immediately after free | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Mem.MemMaxResvThreshold | Max memory reservartion threshold used for indicating health state | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Mem.MemMinFreePct | Percentage of host memory to reserve for accelerating memory allocations when free memory is low, 0 for automatic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | True |
Mem.MemZipEnable | Enable the memory compression cache | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Mem.MemZipMaxAllocPct | Sets the maximum size for the compression cache as a percentage of allocated VM memory size | 50 | 50 | 5 | 100 | True |
Mem.MemZipMaxPct | Sets the maximum target size for the compression cache as a percentage of VM size | 10 | 10 | 5 | 100 | True |
Mem.ReallocPolicy | Memory scheduling policy. 0: default, 1: GFMS, 2: Legacy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | True |
Mem.SampleActivePctMin | lower bound for sampled active memory | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | True |
Mem.SampleDirtiedPctMin | lower bound for sampled active dirtied memory | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | True |
Mem.ShareCOSBufSize | Specify number of MPNs to be used by COW P2M buffer | 5 | 5 | 2 | 32 | True |
Mem.ShareForceSalting | PShare salting lets you limit the transparent page sharing only between a set of VMs. PShare salting is controlled by the VMX sched.mem.pshare.salt option. The PShare salting option has three states: 0 - no salting or isolation between VMs; 1 - VMs that have the sched.mem.pshare.salt option set are able to share memory with VMs with the same salt; 2 - VMs that do not have the sched.mem.pshare.salt option set cannot share memory with any other VM, page sharing is possible only inside the VM. If the sched.mem.pshare.salt is present but empty, the VM gets its own unique salt. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
Mem.ShareRateMax | per-VM upper limit on pshare scan rate in pages/sec. (0 to disable) | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 32768 | True |
Mem.ShareScanGHz | max page scan rate in MB/sec per GHz of host CPU, 0 to disable | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 | True |
Mem.ShareScanTime | desired time in minutes to scan entire VM | 60 | 60 | 10 | 600 | True |
Mem.VMOverheadGrowthLimit | Default limit (in MB) on VM overhead memory growth. Valid values are 0 to maximum memory supported, and 0xffffffff which means "unlimited". | 4294967295 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Migrate.BindToVmknic | Bind the vMotion socket to a specific vmknic. 0 for never, 1 to bind only with FT, 2 to bind with FT or for multi-vmknic support, 3 to always bind | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | True |
Migrate.CptCacheMaxSizeMB | Maximum checkpoint cache size in MB | 544 | 544 | 8 | 1024 | True |
Migrate.DebugChecksumMismatch | Debug checksum mismatch. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.DetectZeroPages | Whether vMotion should detect zero pages during page transmission | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.Enabled | Enable hot migration support | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.GetPageSysAlertThresholdMS | Threshold in milliseconds for the source host to prepare a page for transmission above which a SysAlert is triggered | 10000 | 10000 | 1000 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.LowBandwidthSysAlertThreshold | Threshold in KB/s for VMotion bandwidth below which a SysAlert is triggered | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.LowMemWaitSysAlertThresholdMS | Threshold in milliseconds for the dest host to leave the low-memory state above which a SysAlert is triggered | 10000 | 10000 | 1000 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.MigrateBitmapEncodingType | Encoding type for changed bitmap transfer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
Migrate.MigrateCpuMinPctDefault | Desired default shared CPU reservation (in %) for VMotions | 30 | 30 | 0 | 400 | True |
Migrate.MigrateCpuPctPerGb | Desired per Gbit shared CPU reservation (in %) for VMotions | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100 | True |
Migrate.MigrateCpuSharesHighPriority | CPU shares for a high priority VMotion | 60000 | 60000 | 1 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.MigrateCpuSharesRegular | CPU shares for a regular VMotion | 30000 | 30000 | 1 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.MigrateStreamHelperBwUtilMax | Maximum network bandwidth (Mbps) that each stream helper can saturate | 15000 | 15000 | 1 | 15000 | True |
Migrate.MonActionWaitSysAlertThresholdMS | Threshold in milliseconds for the monitor to process a pre-copy action after which a SysAlert is triggered | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.NetExpectedLineRateMBps | Expected network throughput, in MBps, for bandwidth-delay calculation | 133 | 133 | 1 | 2000 | True |
Migrate.NetLatencyModeThreshold | Lowest possible round-trip time, in ms, before vMotion must operate in latency-aware mode. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Migrate.NetTimeout | Timeout in seconds for migration network operations | 20 | 20 | 1 | 3600 | True |
Migrate.NfcNetTimeout | Time-out in seconds for NFC migration network operations | 60 | 60 | 1 | 3600 | True |
Migrate.OutstandingReadKBMax | Maximum socket-backed mbuf bytes vMotion will allow to be outstanding while drained concurrently with reads, 0 for unlimited | 128 | 128 | 0 | 2048 | True |
Migrate.PanicOnChecksumMismatch | 1 for world panic, 2 for vmkernel panic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | True |
Migrate.PreCopyCountDelay | Delay preCopy next action every n action posts | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1000 | True |
Migrate.PreCopyMinProgressPerc | Minimum allowed transmit to dirty page ratio per pre-copy iteration | 130 | 130 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Migrate.PreCopyPagesPerSend | Maximum number of pages to send per precopy transmit | 32 | 32 | 1 | 1024 | True |
Migrate.PreCopySwitchoverTimeGoal | Goal time in milliseconds to send changed pages after pre-copy completes | 500 | 500 | 100 | 100000 | True |
Migrate.PreallocLPages | Attempt to prealloc destination pages via large page allocation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.ProhibitInstantClone | Prohibit instant clone from a VM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.RcvBufSize | TCP receive buffer size for the destination | 562540 | 562540 | 65536 | 1000000 | True |
Migrate.SdpsDynamicDelaySec | Delay, in seconds, between polling when considering enabling SDPS in the first preCopy iteration. | 30 | 30 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Migrate.SdpsEnabled | Stuns VMotion source in small increments during precopy, 0=disabled, 1=always enabled, 2=dynamic | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
Migrate.SdpsTargetRate | Percent by which transmit should be made to exceed dirty | 500 | 500 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Migrate.SndBufSize | TCP send buffer size for the source | 562540 | 562540 | 65536 | 1000000 | True |
Migrate.TcpTsoDeferTx | Use TCP tso defer optimization for transmit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.TryToUseDefaultHeap | Attempt use the default migration heap when beginning new migrations | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.VASpaceReserveCount | Number of migrations to reserve virtual address space for at module load time | 64 | 64 | 2 | 64 | True |
Migrate.VASpaceReserveSize | Megabytes of virtual address space to reserve per migration at module load time | 4096 | 4096 | 64 | 4096 | True |
Migrate.VMotionLatencySensitivity | Make vMotion helper worlds latency sensitive, avoid transmit delays. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.VMotionMaxStreamHelpers | Maximum number of helpers to allocate for VMotion streams when using Autoscale | 112 | 112 | 1 | 112 | True |
Migrate.VMotionResolveSwapType | Attempt to resolve swap type during VMotion initialization | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Migrate.VMotionStreamHelpers | Number of helpers to allocate for VMotion streams, 0 to dynamically allocate atleast one per stream IP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | True |
Migrate.Vmknic | vmknic for vMotion vmkernel VNIC | vmk0 | N/A | N/A | True | |
Misc.APDHandlingEnable | Enable Storage APD Handling. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.APDTimeout | Number of seconds a device can be in APD before failing User World I/O. | 140 | 140 | 20 | 999999 | True |
Misc.BHTimeout | Time-out for bottom-half handlers in milliseconds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5000 | True |
Misc.BlueScreenTimeout | Time-out in seconds. Set to 0 for no time-out. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Misc.ConsolePort | Name of serial port to use for visor console (COM1, COM2) | none | none | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.DebugLogToSerial | Send vmkernel LOG messages to the serial port | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.DebugShellPort | Name of serial port to use for debug shell (COM1, COM2) | none | none | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.DefaultHardwareVersion | Default virtual machine compatibility | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Misc.DegradedPathEvalTime | Evaluation time (in secs) for paths to mark the path as degraded | 5 | 5 | 0 | 500 | True |
Misc.DegradedPathReEvalInterval | Re-evaluation interval (in secs) for the degraded paths | 60 | 60 | 60 | 600 | True |
Misc.EnablePSPLatencyPolicy | Enable latency based sub-policy of Round-robin path selection plugin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.GDBPort | Name of serial port to use for GDB debugging (COM1, COM2) | none | none | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.GuestLibAllowHostInfo | Allow guest to read host-level metrics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.HeapMgrGuardPages | Number of guard pages to insert between heap VA regions | 1 | 1 | 0 | 512 | True |
Misc.HeapPanicDestroyNonEmpty | Panic when a non-empty heap gets destroyed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.HeartbeatInterval | Interval in msec to check CPU lockups | 1000 | 1000 | 100 | 86400000 | True |
Misc.HeartbeatPanicIpiCount | Number of IPIs sent to target pcpu prior to invoking NMI PSOD | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | True |
Misc.HeartbeatPanicTimeout | Interval in seconds after which to panic if no heartbeats received | 10 | 900 | 1 | 86400 | True |
Misc.HeartbeatTimeout | Time-out for sending NMI to the locked CPU | 5 | 90 | 1 | 86400 | True |
Misc.HordeEnabled | Enables horde mode | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.HostName | Host name | localhost | localhost | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.HppDegradedPathThresholdPer | Percentage threshold of transient errors to mark path as degraded | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 | True |
Misc.HppManageDegradedPaths | Choose paths with less errors for I/Os during transient issues on HPP claimed paths | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.HwclockPeriodicSync | Sync the hardware clock periodically to match the current system time | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.HyperClockAllowSystemTimeAux | Allow auxiliary input to system time HyperClock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.IoFilterWatchdogTimeout | Timeout for the I/O filter watchdog in seconds. 0 means the watchdog is disabled. 120 seconds is the minimum timeout value. | 120 | 120 | 0 | 3600 | True |
Misc.LogDumpShutdownTimeout | The maximum amount of time during shutdown that the kernel logger will spend dumping logs from the log buffer | 180 | 180 | 0 | 1800 | True |
Misc.LogPort | Name of serial port to use for logging (COM1, COM2) | none | none | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.LogTimestampUptime | Use uptime rather than UTC for vmkernel log | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.LogToSerial | Send VMkernel log messages to the serial port | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.LogWldPrefix | Include running world on every log statement | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.MCEMonitorInterval | Interval[0 - 0x7fffffff ms] to poll for Machine Check Errors(0=never) | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
Misc.MaximumHardwareVersion | Maximum virtual machine compatibility | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Misc.MinimalPanic | Do not attempt core dump after purple screen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.NMILint1IntAction | Override how a hardware generated NMI is handled: 0=default (panic, unless changed by boot-time option), 1=enter debugger, 2=panic, 3=log and ignore (not recommended), 4=log and ignore if undiagnosed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | True |
Misc.NmpDegradedPathThresholdPer | Percentage threshold of transient errors to mark path as degraded | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 | True |
Misc.NmpManageDegradedPaths | Choose paths with less errors for I/Os during transient issues on NMP claimed paths | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.PSPDeactivateFlakyPath | Deactivate flaky path if IOs are failing with HOST ERROR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.PanicLogToSerial | Send Panic log messages to the serial port | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.PowerButton | Action to take on a momentary press of the soft power button (0=ignore, 1=request graceful system shutdown and power-off) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.PowerOffEnable | Action to take on system power-off request (0=halt only, 1=power off) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.PreferredHostName | Preferred Host name | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Misc.RebootMethod | Preferred reboot method (any, psci, acpi, rcr_hard, kb, ps2, uefi, or rcr_power) | any | any | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.SIOControlFlag1 | Storage I/O Control Internal Flag | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
Misc.SIOControlFlag2 | Storage I/O Control Internal Flag | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
Misc.SIOControlLoglevel | Storage I/O Control Log Level | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | True |
Misc.SIOControlOptions | Storage I/O Control Options | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Misc.ScreenSaverDelay | Delay in minutes before screensaver kicks in | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | True |
Misc.ShaperStatsEnabled | Enable stats in shaper module | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.ShellPort | Name of serial port to use for visor shell (COM1, COM2) | none | none | N/A | N/A | True |
Misc.TestNativeFCPaeCapable | native_fc test module is pae capable | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.TimerTolerance | Default timer lateness tolerance in microseconds | 2000 | 2000 | 100 | 1000000 | True |
Misc.forceBPB | Force use of BPB. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.forceMPTI | Force use of Monitor Page Table Isolation. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.vmknvmeCwYield | Yield every n command in NVMe completion world | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Misc.vmmDisableL1DFlush | Disable L1D flush on VM entry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.vsanWitnessVirtualAppliance | Indicates a vSAN witness host running in a Virtual Appliance. VM services (create/register/power on) are blocked | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Misc.DsNsMgrTimeout | Timeout for DatastoreNamespaceManager operations in milliseconds | 1200000 | 1200000 | 10000 | 1800000 | False |
Misc.HostAgentUpdateLevel | The update level of Host Agent. | 2 | N/A | N/A | False | |
Misc.MetadataUpdateTimeoutMsec | Timeout for VM MetadataManager operations in milliseconds | 30000 | 30000 | 0 | 600000 | False |
NFS.ApdStartCount | Number of sequential heartbeat failures after which APD start event is triggered | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | True |
NFS.DiskFileLockUpdateFreq | Time (in seconds) between updates to a disk lock file | 10 | 10 | 8 | 3600 | True |
NFS.HeartbeatDelta | Time in seconds since the last successful update before a heartbeat is sent | 5 | 5 | 3 | 30 | True |
NFS.HeartbeatFrequency | Time in seconds between heartbeats | 12 | 12 | 5 | 86400 | True |
NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures | Number of sequential failures before a volume is marked down | 10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | True |
NFS.HeartbeatTimeout | Time in seconds before an outstanding heartbeat is stopped | 5 | 5 | 3 | 30 | True |
NFS.LockBreakTimeout | Time (in seconds) to wait to check for expired races when breaking lock | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3600 | True |
NFS.LockRenewMaxFailureNumber | Number of update failures before a disk file lock is declared stale | 3 | 3 | 1 | 100 | True |
NFS.LockSWMRTimeout | Time (in seconds) to wait to check for expired races when acquiring SWMR lock | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3600 | True |
NFS.LockSharedTimeout | Time (in seconds) to wait to check for expired races when sharing (read) lock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3600 | True |
NFS.LockUpdateTimeout | Time (in seconds) before we abort an outstanding lock update | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | True |
NFS.LogNfsStat3 | Log nfsstat3 code | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
NFS.MaxQueueDepth | Maximum per-Volume queue depth | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
NFS.MaxVolumes | Maximum number of mounted NFS v3 volumes | 32 | 32 | 8 | 256 | True |
NFS.MountTimeout | Mount timeout in seconds | 30 | 30 | 3 | 60 | True |
NFS.NFSMaxOutstandingIOs | Maximum number of NFSv3 outstanding IOs on the host | 65536 | 65536 | 32 | 131072 | True |
NFS.ReceiveBufferSize | Default size of socket receive buffer (KB) | 1024 | 1024 | 64 | 5120 | True |
NFS.SendBufferSize | Default size of socket send buffer (KB) | 1024 | 1024 | 32 | 5120 | True |
NFS.SyncRetries | Number of retries before synchronous IO fails (10 seconds per retry) | 25 | 25 | 3 | 360 | True |
NFS.VolumeRemountFrequency | Time in seconds before attempting to remount a volume | 30 | 30 | 30 | 3600 | True |
NFS41.EOSDelay | Request EOS safety delay in seconds | 30 | 30 | 0 | 90 | True |
NFS41.IOTaskRetry | Synchronous I/O task number of retries | 25 | 25 | 1 | 100 | True |
NFS41.MaxQueueDepth | Maximum per-Volume queue depth | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
NFS41.MaxRead | Maximum read transfer size in bytes (use the smaller of this value and the server advertised value) | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 256 | 4294967295 | True |
NFS41.MaxVolumes | Maximum number of mounted NFS v4.1 volumes | 32 | 32 | 8 | 256 | True |
NFS41.MaxWrite | Maximum write transfer size in bytes (use the smaller of this value and the server advertised value) | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 256 | 4294967295 | True |
NFS41.MountTimeout | Mount timeout in seconds | 30 | 30 | 1 | 60 | True |
NFS41.RecvBufSize | Socket receive buffer size in kilobytes (using default if set to zero) | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 2048 | True |
NFS41.SendBufSize | Socket send buffer size in kilobytes (using default if set to zero) | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 2048 | True |
Net.AdvertisementDuration | duration of RARP advertisements | 60 | 60 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.AllowPT | Whether to enable UPT/NPA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.BMCNetworkEnable | Enable BMC Network for Redfish | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.BlockGuestBPDU | Block guest sourced BPDU frames | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceDefaultOn | Dynamic coalescing on by default | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceFavorNoVmmVmkTx | Favor disabling all vmm->vmk tx transitions; boost its score by factor of this/64. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 64 | True |
Net.CoalesceFineTimeoutCPU | Set which CPU the fine timer will run on | 2 | 2 | 0 | 512 | True |
Net.CoalesceFineTxTimeout | set the fine coalesce timeout in microseconds | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.CoalesceFlexMrq | Whether to dynamically switch on/off multiRxQCalib. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceLowRxRate | No Rx coalescing calibration when the number of pkts Rx per timeout is lower than this number. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 256 | True |
Net.CoalesceLowTxRate | No tx coalescing calibration when the number of pkts tx per timeout is lower than this number. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 256 | True |
Net.CoalesceMatchedQs | Whether to use matched TxRxQ-pairs mode when applicable. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqLt | Whether to set a RxQ's coalesce to zero based on per-RxQ Low Traffic. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqMetricAllowTxOnly | Whether to allow's individual RxQ's perf metric to be tx pkt cnt only; if not, it will be tx + rx, or rx only. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqMetricRxOnly | Whether to force individual RxQ's perf metric to be rx pkt cnt only. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqOverallStop | Whether to use overall performance to stop RxQ Calib. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqRatioMetric | Whether Tx perf score is attributed to RxQ according to rxPktCnt ratio. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMrqTriggerReCalib | Whether to let individual RxQ's perf change trigger re-calib. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceMultiRxQCalib | When not in matched TxRxQ-pairs mode, whether to uses separate RxQ Calib. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceNoVmmVmkTx | Whether to try disable all vmm->vmk tx transitions. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceParams | Set parameters for the default virtual NIC coalescing scheme. | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Net.CoalesceRBCRate | Target event rate for RateBasedCoalescing | 4000 | 4000 | 100 | 100000 | True |
Net.CoalesceRxLtStopCalib | Whether Rx Low Traffic stops Rx calibration. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceRxQDepthCap | Cap of Rx coalescing size. | 40 | 40 | 0 | 80 | True |
Net.CoalesceScheme | Set the default virtual NIC coalescing scheme. | rbc | rbc | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.CoalesceTimeoutType | set the coalesce timeout type: fine(1 ms by default) or coarse (4 ms by default) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | True |
Net.CoalesceTxAlwaysPoll | Whether always poll Tx at coalesce timeout handler. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.CoalesceTxQDepthCap | Cap of Tx coalescing size. | 40 | 40 | 0 | 80 | True |
Net.CoalesceTxTimeout | Set the coalesce time-out in microseconds | 4000 | 4000 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.DCBEnable | Enable DCB for FCoE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.DVFilterBindIpAddress | DVFilter internal communication endpoint | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Net.DVFilterPriorityRdLockEnable | Use priority locking in dvfilter to read lock portsets | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.DVSLargeHeapMBPerGB | Maximum MB of dvsLargeHeap memory to be allocated per GB of physical memory | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20 | True |
Net.DVSLargeHeapMaxSize | Max size for the dvsLargeHeap | 300 | 300 | 64 | 2048 | True |
Net.DontOffloadInnerIPv6 | Don't offload inner IPv6 CSO/TSO packets to physical NICs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.E1000IntrCoalesce | Whether to enable interrupt coalescing for e1000 vNIC. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.E1000TxCopySize | e1000 tx less than or equal to this will be fully copied with no need for completion. | 2048 | 2048 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.E1000TxZeroCopy | Use tx zero copy for non-tso packets for e1000. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.EnableDMASgCons | When non-zero, enable the DMA SG constraints support in uplink layer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.EnableOuterCsum | Enable uplink layer outer checksumming | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.EnsMbufpoolMaxMBPerGB | Maximum MB of the ENS slab memory to be allocated per GB of physical memory | 200 | 200 | 10 | 500 | True |
Net.EnsMbufpoolMinMBPerGB | Minimum MB of the ENS slab memory to be allocated per GB of physical memory | 10 | 10 | 0 | 500 | True |
Net.EtherswitchAllowFastPath | Allow Etherswitch fast path | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.EtherswitchHashSize | Number of ports on the etherswitch x 2^N is the size of the hash table for looking up MACs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | True |
Net.EtherswitchHeapMax | The maximum size (in Megabytes) to which the etherswitch heap can grow. (REQUIRES REBOOT!) | 512 | 512 | 86 | 2047 | True |
Net.EtherswitchNumPerPCPUDispatchData | The dispatch data number in the etherswitch per-pCPU dispatch data cache. (REQUIRES REBOOT!) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 63 | True |
Net.FollowHardwareMac | If set to 1, the management interface MAC address will update whenever the hardware MAC address changes. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.GuestIPHack | Enable guest arp inspection IOChain to get IP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.GuestTxCopyBreak | Transmits smaller than this will be copied rather than mapped | 64 | 64 | 60 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.IGMPQueries | Number of IGMP Queries to send during after VMotion/Teaming failover | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
Net.IGMPQueryInterval | Interval(in seconds) for IGMP/MLD general query in multicast snooping | 125 | 125 | 32 | 3600 | True |
Net.IGMPRouterIP | Router IP Address for IGMP (generally not necessary to set this) | 0.0.0.0 | 0.0.0.0 | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.IGMPV3MaxSrcIPNum | Max per-group srouce IP number for IGMP V3 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 32 | True |
Net.IGMPVersion | IGMP Version (2 or 3) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | True |
Net.LACPActorSystemPriority | The value of LACP system priority | 1 | 1 | 1 | 65535 | True |
Net.LACPEnableIndividualPort | Allow to set lag status down when all member link status is down | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.LRODefBackoffPeriod | After adaptive LRO decided not to do LRO, how many intervals to wait before trying again. | 8 | 8 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Net.LRODefMaxLength | LRO default max length | 65535 | 65535 | 1 | 65535 | True |
Net.LRODefThreshold | After this # packets, evaluate whether to continue SW LRO | 4000 | 4000 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Net.LRODefUseRatioDenom | If SW LRO reduce pkt count to be smaller than ratio, continue to do LRO. Denominator of ratio. | 3 | 3 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.LRODefUseRatioNumer | If SW LRO reduce pkt count to be smaller than ratio, continue to do LRO. Numerator of ratio. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.LinkFlappingThreshold | Max number of link down events per minute before considering a link unstable (0 to deactivate) | 60 | 60 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Net.LinkStatePollTimeout | Link State poll timer period in milliseconds. | 500 | 500 | 100 | 90000 | True |
Net.MLDRouterIP | Router IPv6 Address for MLD (generally not necessary to set this) | FE80::FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF | FE80::FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.MLDV2MaxSrcIPNum | Max per-group srouce IP number for MLD V2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 32 | True |
Net.MLDVersion | MLD Version (1 or 2) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | True |
Net.MaxBeaconVlans | maximum number of VLANs to probe with beacons. | 100 | 100 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.MaxBeaconsAtOnce | Maximum number of beacons to send in one beacon cycle | 100 | 100 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.MaxGlobalRxQueueCount | Global max length of rx queues for all virtual ports on a ESX host that support queueing | 100000 | 100000 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.MaxNetifTxQueueLen | Maximum length of the Tx queue for the physical NICs | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Net.MaxPageInQueueLen | Maximum number of paging requests to queue for guest DMA | 75 | 75 | 0 | 500 | True |
Net.MaxPktRxListQueue | Maximum packet we can queue in rxList | 3500 | 3500 | 0 | 200000 | True |
Net.MaxPortRxQueueLen | Maximum length of the rx queue for virtual ports whose clients support queuing | 80 | 80 | 1 | 500 | True |
Net.MinEtherLen | Minimum size ethernet frame to transmit | 60 | 60 | 60 | 1518 | True |
Net.NcpLlcSap | beacon/color NCP messages created with this SAP (DSAP/SSAP) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.NetBHRxStormThreshold | Declare Rx Storm after this number of consecutive rx pkt drops during queuing in NetBH rxList. | 320 | 320 | 0 | 200000 | True |
Net.NetDebugRARPTimerInter | RARP timer will be triggered at this interval. | 30000 | 30000 | 0 | 16777215 | True |
Net.NetDeferTxCompletion | Whether to defer tx completion to tx world. 1 for Try Completion. 2 For Always (Only in MQ Tx World case). | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | True |
Net.NetDiscUpdateIntrvl | Set interval (in milliseconds) of networking discovery to update the VLAN information | 300 | 300 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.NetEnableSwCsumForLro | Whether enable software checksum for LRO | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetEsxfwPassOutboundGRE | Whether outbound GRE traffic is passed by ESXi firewall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetInStressTest | If set to 1, suppress certain logs to avoid log spew. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetLatencyAwareness | Whether to check virtual machine's latency settings or not for vmxnet2/3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetMaxRarpsPerInterval | Max number of RARPs dispatched per timer callback. | 128 | 128 | 1 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.NetNetqNumaIOCpuPinThreshold | CPU threshold for pinning device queues in NUMA I/O | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | True |
Net.NetNetqRxRebalRSSLoadThresholdPerc | Threshold percentage to rebalance RSS(Receive Side Scaling) queue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100 | True |
Net.NetNetqTxPackKpps | Max TX queue load (in thousand packet per second) to allow packing on the corresponding RX queue | 300 | 300 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Net.NetNetqTxUnpackKpps | Threshold (in thousand packet per second) for TX queue load to trigger unpacking of the corresponding RX queue | 600 | 600 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Net.NetNiocAllowOverCommit | Whether allow NIOC overcommit when a vNIC is in connected state for DVS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetPTMgrWakeupInterval | How often the PTMgr will wakeup and trigger the UPT mode switch in second. | 6 | 6 | 5 | 15 | True |
Net.NetPktAllocTries | Number of attempts for allocating packet within the page | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 | True |
Net.NetPktSlabFreePercentThreshold | Percent of free network memory pool, below which an event is reported. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 50 | True |
Net.NetPortFlushIterLimit | when input is serialized, this bounds the number of times a thread flushes the deferred list. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 127 | True |
Net.NetPortFlushPktLimit | when input is serialized, this bounds the number of pkts a thread flushes from the deferred list. | 64 | 64 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.NetPortTrackTxRace | if enabled(1), collect statistics on potential tx race between concurrent threads. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetRCFAllowBPF | Allow to run BPF code in RCF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetRCFInsnType | The instruction type of bytecode in RCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetRmDistMacFilter | Activate/Deactivate the MAC filter on distributed NetRM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetRmDistSamplingRate | Sampling rate on distributed NetRM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Net.NetRxCopyInTx | Whether to enable rx copy in tx worldlet/world. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetSchedCoalesceTxUsecs | Maximum number of microseconds the device can delay tx completions | 33 | 33 | 1 | 125 | True |
Net.NetSchedDefaultResPoolSharesPct | Percent share given to unclassified traffic | 5 | 5 | 1 | 99 | True |
Net.NetSchedDefaultSchedName | Default networking packet scheduler | fifo | fifo | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.NetSchedECNEnabled | Enable net scheduler to send congestion notification to switch ports. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetSchedECNThreshold | Percentage queue utilization at which net scheduler will start sending congestion notifications to switch ports. | 70 | 70 | 0 | 100 | True |
Net.NetSchedHClkLeafQueueDepthPkt | Minimum number of packets each HClk leaf node can hold | 640 | 640 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Net.NetSchedHClkMQ | Enable multiple hardware queue for hclk netsched. (0 is off. 1 and 2 means MQ enabled. With 1, user specifies the number of queues, while 2 is dynamic based on link speed.) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
Net.NetSchedHClkMaxHwQueue | Maximum number hardware queue that HClock can use. Only used when NetSchedHClkMQ is 1. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 128 | True |
Net.NetSchedHClkVnicMQ | Enable multiple VNIC queue for hardware send queue selection | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetSchedHeapMaxSizeMB | Size of the netsched subsystem heap in MB | 64 | 64 | 1 | 96 | True |
Net.NetSchedInFlightMaxBytesDefault | Number of bytes fed to the nic for nics with a normal (1Gbps) linkspeed | 200000 | 200000 | 1500 | 1500000 | True |
Net.NetSchedInFlightMaxBytesInsane | Number of bytes fed to the nic for nics that don't support tx completion coalescing | 1500000 | 1500000 | 1500 | 1500000 | True |
Net.NetSchedMaxPktSend | Maximum number of packets that we can send to the driver at a time | 256 | 256 | 100 | 4096 | True |
Net.NetSchedQoSSchedName | Default networking packet scheduler for QoS | hclk | hclk | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.NetSchedSpareBasedShares | Enable shares scheduling only on spare bandwidth. Don't bill while doing reservation scheduling | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetSendRARPOnPortEnablement | Ensure one RARP is sent immediately when a port is enabled | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetShaperQueuePerL3L4Flow | Enable queuing per L3/L4 flow hashing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetShaperQueueSizeMax | Maximum shaper queue size | 500 | 500 | 1 | 5000 | True |
Net.NetShaperQueueSizeMin | Minimum shaper queue size | 10 | 10 | 1 | 500 | True |
Net.NetSplitRxMode | Whether to enable automatic splitRxMode | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetTraceEnable | Enable virtual network tracing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetTuneHostMode | Tuning mode for networking | default | default | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.NetTuneInterval | Tuning interval in seconds | 60 | 60 | 1 | 3600 | True |
Net.NetTuneThreshold | Threshold for activating a tuned mode | 1n 2n 50 | 1n 2n 50 | N/A | N/A | True |
Net.NetTxDontClusterSize | Transmits smaller than this will not be subject to clustering.coalescing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8192 | True |
Net.NetTxStaticRelation | Whether the world should have a static relation to the VM VCPU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NetVMTxType | World for asynchronous Tx for net devices. 1 for one tx context per vNIC. 2 for one tx context per VM | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | True |
Net.NetpollSwLRO | Whether to perform SW LRO on pkts in netPoll | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NoLocalCSum | Do not checksum local tx.rx frames | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.NotifySwitch | Broadcasts an arp request on net handle enable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.PTSwitchingTimeout | Timeout (in ms) when asking the VMX/guest to switch in/out of passthru | 20000 | 20000 | 0 | 60000 | True |
Net.PVRDMAVmknic | Vmknic for PVRDMA | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Net.PktAgingListQuantumSize | Quantum size for PktAgingList expressed in power of 2 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 32 | True |
Net.PktagingDropPolicy | Dropping policy for vmxnet3 rx burst queue. 1 for PKTAGING_TAIL_DROP. 2 for PKTAGING_RED | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.PortDisableTimeout | Maximum time to wait for ports to complete I/O before disabling | 5000 | 5000 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
Net.PortsetLockModel | The lock model version of a portset | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.ProvisioningVmknics | vmknics used by NFC for provisioning operations. | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Net.ReversePathFwdCheck | Block the multicast/broadcast packets that come back from physical switches in a teamed environment | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.ReversePathFwdCheckPromisc | Block duplicate packet in a teamed environment when the virtual switch is set to Promiscuous mode. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.SendIGMPReportToUplink | Enable sending IGMP report to uplink | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipCopySmallTx | Copy and tx complete small packets for tcp tx | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipDefLROEnabled | LRO enabled for TCP/IP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipDefLROMaxLength | LRO default max length for TCP/IP | 32768 | 32768 | 1 | 65535 | True |
Net.TcpipDgramRateLimiting | Enable Tx rate limiting for UDP sockets | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipEnableABC | Enable Appropriate Byte Counting for TCP (RFC 3465) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipEnableFlowtable | Enable route caching through the use of flowtable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipEnableSendScaling | Enable Send-Side Scaling (requires RSS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipEnsMultipleRxContexts | Use multiple ENS contexts for vmknic RX processing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipEnsNetQRSS | Request NetQ RSS for vmknics. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipHWLRONoDelayAck | Delayed ack timer not armed for Hardware LRO (socket option needs to be set in addition). | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipHeapMax | Max megabytes the tcpip module heap can grow to. (REQUIRES REBOOT!) | 1024 | 1024 | 32 | 16384 | True |
Net.TcpipHeapSize | Size of the TCP/IP module heap in megabytes (requires reboot) | 8 | 8 | 0 | 128 | True |
Net.TcpipIGMPDefaultVersion | Default version of IGMP, in the absence of a querier | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | True |
Net.TcpipIGMPRejoinInterval | Delay in seconds between automatic IGMP rejoins when no querier is present | 60 | 60 | 10 | 3600 | True |
Net.TcpipLODispatchQueueMaxLen | Max # of pkts queued into the per-protocol queue used for dispatching loopback traffic (REQUIRES REBOOT!) | 128 | 128 | 50 | 512 | True |
Net.TcpipLRONoDelayAck | Delayed ack timer not armed for LRO | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipLogPackets | Turns on packet logging for a vmknic on debug builds, in a circular & in-memory buffer (Takes effect during vmknic creation time) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipLogPacketsCount | Number of packets to log in the in-memory logger. 24570 packets take up about 1.2 MB, and Tx & Rx use separate buffers. (Takes effect during vmknic creation time) | 24570 | 24570 | 1024 | 49140 | True |
Net.TcpipMaxNetstackInstances | The maximum number of TCP/IP stack instances that can exist concurrently. If you increase this number, you must also increase the TcpipHeapSize by about 2.5 MB per instance. Requires rebooting the host. | 48 | 48 | 48 | 513 | True |
Net.TcpipNoBcopyRx | Avoid bcopy in tcp rx | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TcpipPendPktSocketFreeTimeout | Time Delay in seconds, for freeing UDP sockets that have pending packets for Tx completion | 300 | 300 | 1 | 300 | True |
Net.TcpipRxDispatchQueueMaxLen | Max # of pkts queued into a tcpip vmknic by an execution context (applied when vmknic is created) | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 20000 | True |
Net.TcpipRxDispatchQueues | Max # of dispatch queues used for RX. For low memory systems, this should be minimum value(REQUIRES REBOOT!) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | True |
Net.TcpipRxDispatchQuota | Max # of pkts dispatched into the tcpip stack by an execution context | 200 | 200 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Net.TcpipTxDispatchQuota | Max # of pkts dispatched from the tcpip stack by an execution context | 100 | 100 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Net.TcpipTxqBackoffTimeoutMs | Duration (in milli seconds) for which backoff is effective when the tx queue has reached the NET_TCPIP_TXQ_MAX_USAGE_THRESHOLD | 70 | 70 | 20 | 1000 | True |
Net.TcpipTxqMaxUsageThreshold | Tx queue usage threshold in percent at which to start throttling | 80 | 80 | 50 | 100 | True |
Net.TeamPolicyUpDelay | Delay (ms) before considering an `uplink up' event relevant | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1800000 | True |
Net.TeamingNUMAAware | Enable the NUMA awareness in Teaming | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.TrafficFilterIpAddress | Alternate DVFilter internal communication endpoint | N/A | N/A | True | ||
Net.TsoDumpPkt | detailed dump of every pkts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
Net.UplinkAbortDisconnectTimeout | Timeout (ms) waiting for pending calls to finish when disconnecting. | 5000 | 5000 | 1 | 6000000 | True |
Net.UplinkKillAsyncTimeout | Timeout (ms) waiting for async when world is killed. | 10000 | 10000 | 1 | 6000000 | True |
Net.UplinkTxQueuesDispEnabled | Enables dispatching of port traffic on multiple tx queues | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseHwCsumForIPv6Csum | When non-zero, use pNIC HW_CSUM, if available, as IPv6 csum offload | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseHwIPv6Csum | When non-zero, use pNIC HW IPv6 csum offload if available | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseHwTSO | When non-zero, use pNIC HW TSO offload if available | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseHwTSO6 | When non-zero, use pNIC HW IPv6 TSO offload if available | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseLegacyProc | Enable or disable populating legacy entries in /proc/vmware/net | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.UseProc | Populate /proc/vmware/net | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VLANMTUCheckMode | Set the unicast/broadcast checking mode in VLAN MTU check | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmklnxLROEnabled | LRO enabled in vmklinux | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmklnxLROMaxAggr | LRO max aggr in vmklinux | 6 | 6 | 0 | 24 | True |
Net.VmknicDoLroSplit | whether for vmknic LRO avoids aggregating all pkts into a single (> 2 ms) large pkt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmknicLroSplitBnd | when VmknicDoLroSplit is non-zero, while pktList is larger than this number, lroSplit is not done. | 12 | 12 | 2 | 255 | True |
Net.Vmxnet2HwLRO | Whether to perform HW LRO on pkts going to a LPD capable vmxnet2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet2PinRxBuf | Pin RX buffers for vmxnet2 clients (windows guest only) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet2SwLRO | Whether to perform SW LRO on pkts going to a LPD capable vmxnet2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3AllowTruncation | Allow truncated packets to be delivered to the guest | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3CopyTrailer | Copy additional bytes of pkt not included in the total length field of ip header | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3ESPRSSAllowed | Allow RSS for IPSEC (ESP) over IPv4 if requested by guest/vmx. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3EnsRxMultipleContexts | Use multiple ENS contexts for vnic RX processing. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3HwLRO | Whether to enable HW LRO on pkts going to a LPD capable vmxnet3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3MaxPendingRxBurst | max # packets to drain from Burst Queue per call | 128 | 128 | 64 | 4096 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3MaxRxBurstQueueLength | Maximum length of burst queue allowed when configured via vmx option | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 65536 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3NonTsoPacketGtMtuAllowed | Allow non-TSO/LRO packets greater than vNic MTU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3PageInBound | max # pageIn requests to handle per helper call for vmxnet3. | 32 | 32 | 1 | 1024 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3RSSHashCache | Enable RSS hash cache. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3RxBurstQueueEnableThreshold | Maximum number of entries allowed in Rx ring buffer after which vmxnet3 Rx burst queuing will be disabled in vNIC backend | 64 | 64 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3RxBurstQueueLimit | Maximum number of packets allowed to be queued in vmxnet3 vNIC backend in rx path | 512 | 512 | 0 | 16384 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3RxPollBound | max # pkts to receive per timeout for vmxnet3. | 256 | 256 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3SetRSSHash | While using multiqueue delivery, set RSS hash while delivering the packet to the guest. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3SwLRO | Whether to perform SW LRO on pkts going to a LPD capable vmxnet3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3UDPRSSAllowed | Allow RSS for UDP over IPv4/IPv6 if requested by guest/vmx. May result in out-of-order packets for IP fragments. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3WinIntrHints | whether intr hints are used for Windows vmxnet3. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.Vmxnet3usePNICHash | Reuse pnic computed RSS hash. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetBiDirNeedsTsoTx | Need to see Tso Tx to qualify for tsoSplit bidirectional traffic condition. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetBiDirNoTsoSplit | For bidirectional traffic, don't do tsoSplit. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetCopyTxRunLimit | non-Win vmxnet2/3 tx will have at most so many fully copied tx's in a row (65536 and larger means never). | 16 | 16 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.VmxnetDoLroSplit | whether for vmxnet LRO avoids aggregating all pkts into a single (> 2 mss) large pkt. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetDoTsoSplit | whether to split TSO pkts before LPD; 1: halved; 3: VmxnetTsoSplitSize; 2: hybrid. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | True |
Net.VmxnetLROBackoffPeriod | After adaptive LRO decided not to do LRO, how many intervals to wait before trying again. | 8 | 8 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Net.VmxnetLROMaxLength | LRO default max length for TCP/IP | 32000 | 32000 | 1 | 65535 | True |
Net.VmxnetLROThreshold | After this # packets, evaluate whether to continue SW LRO | 4000 | 4000 | 0 | 65535 | True |
Net.VmxnetLROUseRatioDenom | If SW LRO reduce pkt count to be smaller than ratio, continue to do LRO. Denominator of ratio. | 3 | 3 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.VmxnetLROUseRatioNumer | If SW LRO reduce pkt count to be smaller than ratio, continue to do LRO. Numerator of ratio. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.VmxnetLroSplitBnd | when VmxnetDoLroSplit is non-zero, while pktList is larger than this number, lroSplit is not done. | 64 | 64 | 2 | 255 | True |
Net.VmxnetPromDisableLro | Whether to disable SW LRO when vNIC goes into promiscuous mode. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetSwLROSL | Whether to use ShortLived for vmxnet SW LRO | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Net.VmxnetTsoSplitBnd | when VmxnetDoTsoSplit is 1 or 2, use targetSize as the tsoSplit threshold if the overall pkt list already has this number of pkts. | 12 | 12 | 2 | 255 | True |
Net.VmxnetTsoSplitSize | split (byte) size; only used if DoTsoSplit >= 2. | 17500 | 17500 | 1500 | 65535 | True |
Net.VmxnetTxCopySize | vmxnet tx <= than this will be fully copied with no need for completion. | 256 | 256 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.VmxnetWinCopyTxRunLimit | Win vmxnet2/3 tx will have at most so many fully copied tx's in a row (65536 and larger means never). | 65535 | 65535 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Net.VmxnetWinUDPTxFullCopy | whether Windows vmxnet UDP tx is fullCopy. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | True |
Net.vNicNumDeferredReset | max # normalPkts per poll. | 12 | 12 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.vNicTxPollBound | max # normalPkts per poll. | 192 | 192 | 0 | 4096 | True |
Net.vmxnetThroughputWeight | How far to favor throughput in vmxnet behavior. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 255 | True |
Net.IOControlPnicOptOut | List of physical NICs to opt out of network I/O control | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Nmp.NmpPReservationCmdRetryTime | Time (in secs) to retry on transient errors for Persistent reservation commands for MSCS CAB configs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 300 | True |
Nmp.NmpSatpAluaCmdRetryTime | Time (in secs) to retry on transient errors | 20 | 20 | 0 | 50 | True |
Nmp.NmpSatpAluaTransRetryTime | Time (in secs) to wait for ALUA transition to complete when target reports ALUA transitioning state | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | True |
Numa.CoreCapRatioPct | The capacity of a core in percent. When exceeded, locality migration is rejected. Set to 0 to disable this check | 90 | 90 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.CostopSkewAdjust | way to handle costop skew, 0:do nothing, 1:interleave vcpus among clients, 2:allow vcpus on all nodes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | True |
Numa.FollowCoresPerSocket | 1: if the vNUMA topology should strickly follow core-per-socket config, 0: to remove the restriction | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.LTermFairnessInterval | duration of long term fairness interval in terms of NUMA rebalance period, 0 indicates that long term fairness is disabled | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1000 | True |
Numa.LTermMigImbalThreshold | imbalance in long term owed, in percentage, required to trigger migration for long term fairness | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.LargeInterleave | Always use large page interleaving; 0 to disable. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.LatencyProbePeriod | Time (in ms) in between dynamic latency probing | 500 | 500 | 10 | 100000 | True |
Numa.LocalityWeightActionAffinity | Benefit of improving action affinity by 1. | 130 | 130 | 0 | 200 | True |
Numa.LocalityWeightMem | Benefit of improving memory locality by 1 pct. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.MigImbalanceThreshold | Minimum percent load imbalance between nodes to trigger migration | 10 | 10 | 1 | 200 | True |
Numa.MigPreventLTermThresh | long term owed for a VM, in percentage, above which NUMA migration and swaps are disabled for that VM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.MigThrashThreshold | Maximum post-migration load imbalance as a percentage of pre-migration imbalance to prevent thrashing | 50 | 50 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.MigThreshold | Minimum percent load balance improvement to allow single migration.swap | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100 | True |
Numa.MonMigEnable | Allow NUMASched monitor migrations. Set to 1 to enable; set to 0 to disable. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.PageMigEnable | Permit NUMASched to manipulate page migration. Set to 1 to enable; set to 0 to disable. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.PageMigLinearRun | page migration candidates for linear scan, 0 to disable | 95 | 95 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Numa.PageMigRandomRun | page migration candidates for random scan, 0 to disable | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Numa.PageMigRateMax | max page migration rate | 8000 | 8000 | 0 | 250000 | True |
Numa.PreferHT | Prefer using HyperThreads on the same NUMA node over full cores on multiple nodes; 0 to disable. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.RebalanceCoresNode | Minimum number of cores per node required to enable NUMA rebalancer | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | True |
Numa.RebalanceCoresTotal | Minimum number of total host cores required to enable NUMA rebalancer | 4 | 4 | 1 | 32 | True |
Numa.RebalanceEnable | Enable or disable NUMA scheduler rebalancer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.RebalancePeriod | Frequency of NUMA node rebalancing in milliseconds | 2000 | 2000 | 100 | 60000 | True |
Numa.SwapConsiderPeriod | time between reconsidering a client for swap, in units of NUMA rebalance period | 15 | 15 | 0 | 10000 | True |
Numa.SwapInterval | frequency of NUMA node swap rebalancing, in units of NUMA rebalance period | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10000 | True |
Numa.SwapLoadEnable | Enable or disable virtual machine swaps across nodes to balance CPU load | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.SwapLocalityEnable | Enable or disable virtual machine swaps across nodes to improve memory locality | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Numa.SwapMigrateOnly | frequency of NUMA VM migration only considerations, in units of NUMA rebalance period, 0 to disable pure migrations | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100 | True |
OSData.configuredLocation | The configured location of the OSData partition. | /vmfs/volumes/650d93a6-1e59594d-cf2b-0050568149e7 | N/A | N/A | False | |
Power.CStateMaxLatency | In Custom policy, avoid a C-state whose latency is larger than this value (us) | 500 | 500 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
Power.CStatePredictionCoef | In Custom policy, predict non-timer wakeup with error probability p, where CStatePredictionCoef = -ln(1 - p) * (1 << 20) | 110479 | 110479 | 0 | 2000000 | True |
Power.CStateResidencyCoef | In Custom policy, avoid a C-state whose latency * CStateResidencyCoef > predicted residence time | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
Power.CpuPolicy | Host power management policy: High Performance, Balanced, Low Power, or Custom | Balanced | Balanced | N/A | N/A | True |
Power.MaxCpuLoad | In Custom policy, CPU utilization threshold below which CPU frequency can be dynamically adjusted | 60 | 60 | 0 | 100 | True |
Power.MaxFreqPct | In Custom policy, do not use P-states faster than the given percentage of full CPU speed, rounded up to the next available P-state | 100 | 100 | 0 | 100 | True |
Power.MinFreqPct | In Custom policy, do not use P-states slower than the given percentage of full CPU speed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | True |
Power.PerfBias | In Custom policy, Performance Energy Bias Hint, where 0-15 directly specifies preference on a scale where 0=MaxPerf and 15=MinPower, while 16-18 chooses an automatically determined value from a preset policy: 16=Low Power, 17=Balanced, 18=High Performance | 17 | 17 | 0 | 18 | True |
Power.PerfBiasEnable | Use Performance Energy Bias Hint | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Power.TimerHz | In Custom policy, dynamic power management timer sampling rate | 100 | 100 | 1 | 1000 | True |
Power.UseCStates | In Custom policy, use ACPI C-states when processor is idle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Power.UsePStates | In Custom policy, use ACPI P-states to save power when processor is busy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
RdmFilter.HbaIsShared | Allow local disks to be RDM candidates for Virtual Machines | False | True | N/A | N/A | False |
ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation | The directory configured to be used for scratch space. Changes will take effect on next reboot. | /vmfs/volumes/650d93a6-1e59594d-cf2b-0050568149e7 | N/A | N/A | False | |
ScratchConfig.CurrentScratchLocation | The directory currently being used for scratch space. | /vmfs/volumes/650d93a6-1e59594d-cf2b-0050568149e7 | N/A | N/A | False | |
Scsi.ChangeQErrSetting | Change the QErr value of devices to 0x0. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.CompareLUNNumber | Consider LUN number when determining LUN identity. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.EnableCmdSanityCheck | Enable Scsi command basic sanity checks. This option can crash the system if Scsi Command signature mismatches | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ExtendAPDCondition | Trigger APD condition when paths are in unavailable states | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.FailVMIOonAPD | Fast fail virtual machine I/Os on APD Timeout. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.LogCmdErrors | Log SCSI Device command errors. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.LogCmdRCErrorsFreq | Number of consecutive RC errors to be seen before logging SCSI Device command. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Scsi.LogMPCmdErrors | Log SCSI Multi-path plugin command errors. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.LogScsiAborts | Log SCSI abort errors and success. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.LunCleanupInterval | Timeout for purging stale LUNs. Any LUN which was seen more than the configured number of days ago, will be deleted by the daily cleanup operation | 7 | 7 | 1 | 100 | True |
Scsi.MaxReserveBacktrace | Log a backtrace if caller exceeds SCSI_MAX_RESERVE_TIME or SCSI_MAX_RESERVE_TOTALTIME (debug only) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.MaxReserveTime | Maximum time (in milliseconds) a system-initiated reservation is normally held | 200 | 200 | 50 | 500 | True |
Scsi.MaxReserveTotalTime | Maximum time (in msecs) a system-initiated reservation normally takes from issue to release (debug only) | 250 | 250 | 50 | 500 | True |
Scsi.NvmeAdjustLocalNSQDepth | Allow dividing the controller queue depth among the namespaces behind the controller for NVMe Local devices. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.NvmeLogVerbose | Enable verbose logging for NVMe devices. This is a bitwise value and can be combined. 1 = Log every command, 2 = Log ANA log page, 4 = Log ANA log page namespace list, 8 = Verbose logging | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | True |
Scsi.NvmeMaxUnmapBlockDescriptorCount | Set maximum deallocate(unmap) descriptor count limit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 256 | True |
Scsi.NvmeMaxUnmapLbaCount | Set maximum deallocate(unmap) size limit (in blocks) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Scsi.PassthroughLocking | SCSI passthrough locking | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.PcpusPerCompletionWorld | Allocate number of storage adapter completion worlds based on pcpus per world across NUMA nodes. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 64 | True |
Scsi.ReserveBacktrace | Log a backtrace for all Reserve/Release pairs (debug only) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.SCSIBlockUnsupportedOpcodesAndPages | Enable or disable blocking unsupported SCSI opcodes and vpd/mode pages | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.SCSIEnableDescToFixedConv | Enable or disable conversion of descriptor format sense to fixed for older plugins | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.SCSIEnableDeviceLatencyHistogram | Enable or disable updation of device latency histograms | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.SCSIStrictSPCVersionChecksForPEs | Only LUNs with version >= SCSI_ANSI_SCSI3_SPC4 can be PEs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.SCSITimeout_ReabortTime | Delay (in milliseconds) after a stop due to time-out before the stop is re-issued | 5000 | 5000 | 1 | 99999999 | True |
Scsi.SCSITimeout_ScanTime | Time (in milliseconds) to sleep between checking for timed-out asynchronous I/O | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 99999999 | True |
Scsi.SCSIioTraceBufSizeMB | Logchannel buffer size for per device IO tracing in MB | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | True |
Scsi.ScanOnDriverLoad | Scan new SCSI buses on device driver load | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ScanSync | Force LU scanning operations to be synchronous if set. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ScsiAllowDeviceSpinup | Allow device spin up, if device is in spun down state. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ScsiPathSplitUseSimpleCloneBuffer | Use simple clone buffers to split IOs at path layer whenever possible. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ScsiRestartStalledQueueLatency | Delay in ms before restarting a stalled queue | 500 | 500 | 1 | 60000 | True |
Scsi.ScsiTMHardTimeout | Timeout in milliseconds before signalling upper layers of wedged I/O (0 = Signalling disabled). | 120000 | 120000 | 0 | 600000 | True |
Scsi.ScsiUseVPDXCopyInfo | Use Scsi VPD query for XCopy Info. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Scsi.ScsiVVolPESNRO | Default schedNumReqOutstanding value for a PE LUN. | 256 | 256 | 32 | 4096 | True |
Scsi.TimeoutTMThreadExpires | Life in seconds of timeout task mgmt handler thread | 1800 | 1800 | 1 | 86400 | True |
Scsi.TimeoutTMThreadLatency | Delay in ms before waking up new task mgmt thread | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 600000 | True |
Scsi.TimeoutTMThreadMax | Max number of timeout task-mgmt handler threads | 16 | 16 | 1 | 16 | True |
Scsi.TimeoutTMThreadMin | Min number of timeout task-mgmt handler threads | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | True |
Scsi.TimeoutTMThreadRetry | Delay in milliseconds before retrying taskmgmt which failed or for which the I/O did not complete | 2000 | 2000 | 1000 | 10000 | True |
Scsi.TransFailLogPct | Percent of Transient failures seen on Scsi Device that will be logged. | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 | True |
Scsi.UseAdaptiveRetries | Use adaptive retries for transient errors. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
Security.AccountLockFailures | Maximum allowed failed login attempts before locking out a user's account. Zero disables account locking. | 5 | 5 | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.AccountUnlockTime | Duration in seconds to lock out a user's account after exceeding the maximum allowed failed login attempts. | 900 | 900 | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.DefaultShellAccess | The default value of the 'shellAccess' field if it is not specified explicitly while creating a new user account, when the caller has shell access. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.PasswordHistory | Number of passwords to remember for each user. Zero disables password history. | 5 | 5 | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.PasswordMaxDays | Maximum number of days between password changes. Affects all existing and new users. | 99999 | 99999 | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.PasswordQualityControl | Raw options for pam_passwdqc PAM module. This value is used as is in PAM's configuration file, so use with caution. | retry=3 min=disabled,disabled,disabled,7,7 | retry=3 min=disabled,disabled,disabled,7,7 | N/A | N/A | False |
Security.SshSessionLimit | Maximum number of SSH sessions for all users except user 'root'. | 50 | 50 | N/A | N/A | False |
SunRPC.MaxConnPerIP | Max number of TCP/IP connection per IP | 32 | 32 | 1 | 256 | True |
SunRPC.SendLowat | Send buffer lowat (%) | 25 | 25 | 1 | 100 | True |
SunRPC.SetNoDelayedAck | Set socket option to disable TCP delayed acknowledgements (Use this option under guidance of VMware support. Requires Remount) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
SunRPC.WorldAffinity | TX Affinity: 0 - Disabled, 1 - Issuing world, 2 - Exact RX world, 3 - Loose RX world | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | True |
SvMotion.SvMotionAvgDisksPerVM | Initial Storage vMotion Heap Size is proportional to this setting | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1024 | True |
Syslog.global.auditRecord.remoteEnable | Enable transmitting audit records to remote hosts. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageCapacity | Audit record storage capacity (in MiB). | 4 | 4 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageDirectory | Audit record storage directory. | [] /scratch/auditLog | [] /scratch/auditLog | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageEnable | Enable audit record storage. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.certificate.checkCRL | Enable checking the revocation status of all the certificates in an SSL certificate chain. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.certificate.checkSSLCerts | Enforce checking of SSL certificates when transmitting messages to remote hosts. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.certificate.strictX509Compliance | Enable strict compliance with X.509. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.defaultRotate | Number of older log files to keep. | 8 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.defaultSize | Size of each log file before switching to a new one (in KiB). | 1024 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.droppedMsgs.fileRotate | Number of older dropped message log files to keep. | 10 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.droppedMsgs.fileSize | Size of each dropped message log file before switching to a new one (in KiB). | 100 | 100 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.logCheckSSLCerts | DEPRECATED - use Syslog.global.certificate.checkSSLCerts. Enforce checking of SSL certificates when transmitting messages to remote hosts. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.logDir | Datastore path of the directory to output logs to. Example: [datastoreName]/logdir | [] /scratch/log | [] /scratch/log | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.logDirUnique | Enable placing log files in a unique subdirectory of logdir, based on hostname. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.logFilters | DESCRIPTION BREAKS FORMATTING | N/A | N/A | False | ||
Syslog.global.logFiltersEnable | Enable the use of log filters. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.logHost | DESCRIPTION BREAKS FORMATTING | udp://192.168.1.200 | N/A | N/A | False | |
Syslog.global.logLevel | Log filtering level. This should only be changed when troubleshooting an issue with the syslog daemon. Values may be 'debug' (most detailed level), 'info' (default detail level), 'warning' (only warnings or errors), or 'error' (only errors). | error | error | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.msgQueueDropMark | The message queue drop mark (as a percentage). | 90 | 90 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.remoteHost.connectRetryDelay | Delay before retrying to connect to a remote host after a connection attempt has failed (in seconds). | 180 | 180 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.remoteHost.maxMsgLen | Maximum remote host transmission length (in bytes) when using the TCP and TLS (SSL) protocols. Messages longer than this will be truncated. | 1024 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.global.vsanBacking | Allow the logging and audit record storage directories to be placed on a VSAN. WARNING! Enabling this parameter may cause ESXi to hang. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.LogEFI.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.LogEFI.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.Xorg.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.Xorg.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.apiForwarder.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.apiForwarder.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.attestd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.attestd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.auth.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.auth.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.catalog.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.catalog.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clomd-whatif.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clomd-whatif.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clomd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clomd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clusterAgent.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.clusterAgent.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsTimeMachine.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsTimeMachine.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsTimeMachineDump.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 20 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsTimeMachineDump.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.cmmdsd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 5120 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.crx-cli.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.crx-cli.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.dhclient.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.dhclient.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.dpd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.dpd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.entropyd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.entropyd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.envoy-access.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.envoy-access.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.envoy.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.envoy.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.epd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.epd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxcli.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxcli.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxgdpd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxgdpd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxioCommd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxioCommd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxtokend.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 12 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxtokend.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxupdate.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.esxupdate.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.etcd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.etcd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.fdm.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.fdm.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 5120 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.gstored.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.gstored.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hbrsrv.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hbrsrv.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.healthd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.healthd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.healthdPlugins.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.healthdPlugins.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostd-probe.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostd-probe.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostdCgiServer.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostdCgiServer.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostprofiletrace.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.hostprofiletrace.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.infravisor.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.infravisor.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.iofiltervpd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.iofiltervpd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.ioinsight.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.ioinsight.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.keypersist.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.keypersist.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.kmxa.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.kmxa.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.kmxd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.kmxd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.lacp.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.lacp.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.lifecycle.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.lifecycle.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.loadESX.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.loadESX.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.localcli.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 4 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.localcli.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.metald.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.metald.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.nfcd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.nfcd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.osfsd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.osfsd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.rhttpproxy.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.rhttpproxy.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sandboxd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sandboxd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sdrsInjector.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sdrsInjector.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sensord.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sensord.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.settingsd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.settingsd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.shell.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.shell.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sockrelay.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.sockrelay.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.spherelet.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.spherelet.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.storageRM.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.storageRM.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.swapobjd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.swapobjd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.syslog.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.syslog.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.trx.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.trx.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.usb.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.usb.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdfs-proxy.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdfs-proxy.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdfs-server.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdfs-server.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vds-vsipioctl.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vds-vsipioctl.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdtc.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vdtc.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vitd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vitd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vltd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vltd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmauthd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmauthd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkdevmgr.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkdevmgr.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkernel.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkernel.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkeventd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkeventd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmksummary.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmksummary.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkwarning.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vmkwarning.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vobd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vobd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vprobe.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vprobe.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vpxa.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vpxa.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 5120 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanEsxcli.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 3 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanEsxcli.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 5120 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsananalyticsevents.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsananalyticsevents.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 5120 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsandevicemonitord.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsandevicemonitord.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanesxcmd.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 5 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanesxcmd.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.configdump.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.configdump.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.mgmt.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 32 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.mgmt.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.vdfsop.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanfs.vdfsop.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanmgmt.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsanmgmt.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsansystem.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 10 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsansystem.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 10240 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsantraceUrgent.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsantraceUrgent.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsantraced.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vsantraced.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vvold.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 16 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.vvold.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 8192 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.watchdog.rotate | Number of older log files to keep for this logger. | 0 | 8 | N/A | N/A | False |
Syslog.loggers.watchdog.size | Size of each log file before switching to another for this logger (in KiB). | 0 | 1024 | N/A | N/A | False |
USB.arbitratorAutoStartDisabled | Disable automatic start of USB Arbitrator. If set USB passthrough will not be available until USB arbitrator is started at the command line. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
USB.devsShared | Enable sharing (aka non-exclusive claiming) of USB devices with specified vendor and model ids. 0x0 is a wild card model which matches all models from the specified vendor. The string must contain colon delimited numeric fields, respectively the vendor_id and product id. If the latter is omitted from the last pair it is assumed to be 0x0. | 0x04b3:0 | 0x04b3:0 | N/A | N/A | True |
USB.quirks | Additional USB device quirks to be added to the vmkusb native driver default quirks. Device quirks are software workarounds for hardware errata. String format is ::::, with colon delimited fields. vid and pid are the "usb id" numbers for the USB device vendor and product, respectively (and e.g., 0x0e0f for vendor VMware), and low and high rev are the revisions (inclusive) between which to apply the quirk (e.g., 0 and 0xffff). Quirk name is a string constant starting with UQ_. Contact VMware support for a full list of valid quirk names. | N/A | N/A | True | ||
UserVars.ActiveDirectoryPreferredDomainControllers | Preferred Domain Controllers for Active Directory | N/A | N/A | True | ||
UserVars.ActiveDirectoryVerifyCAMCertificate | Enable or disable verification of SSL certificate for vSphere Authentication Proxy server | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.DcuiTimeOut | An idle time in seconds before DCUI is automatically logged out. Setting 0 disables the timeout. | 600 | 600 | 0 | 86400 | True |
UserVars.ESXiShellInteractiveTimeOut | Idle time before an interactive shell is automatically logged out (in seconds, 0 disables). Takes effect only for newly logged in sessions. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86400 | True |
UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut | Time before automatically disabling local and remote shell access (in seconds, 0 disables). Takes effect after the services are restarted. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86400 | True |
UserVars.ESXiVPsAllowedCiphers | ESXi VPs allowed ciphers. List of allowed ciphers to be used by the VPs. Must be in the form accepted by the SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list API. | ECDHE+AESGCM:ECDHE+AES | ECDHE+AESGCM:ECDHE+AES | N/A | N/A | True |
UserVars.ESXiVPsDisabledProtocols | ESXi VPs disabled protocols (Deprecated). All protocols prior to tlsv1.2 are no longer supported and must remain disabled. | sslv3,tlsv1,tlsv1.1 | sslv3,tlsv1,tlsv1.1 | N/A | N/A | True |
UserVars.EsximageNetRateLimit | Set the maximum rate, in bytes/sec, for downloading VIBs (0=no limit) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2147483647 | True |
UserVars.EsximageNetRetries | Set the number of times to retry in case of failure while downloading VIBs | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1024 | True |
UserVars.EsximageNetTimeout | Set the timeout in seconds for downloading VIBs (0=no timeout) | 60 | 60 | 0 | 1024 | True |
UserVars.HardwareHealthIgnoredSensors | List of comma-seperated sensor ID's to ignore for alarm generation. | N/A | N/A | True | ||
UserVars.HardwareHealthSyncTime | Interval in minutes for periodic synchronization of hardware sensor state with VC alarm state. Setting 0 disables synchronization. | 360 | 360 | 0 | 43200 | True |
UserVars.HostClientCEIPOptIn | Whether or not to opt-in for the Customer Experience Improvement Program in Host Client, 0 for ask, 1 for yes, 2 for no | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | True |
UserVars.HostClientDefaultConsole | The default console to use when clicking on a VM screen shot in Host Client, WebMKS or VMRC | webmks | webmks | N/A | N/A | True |
UserVars.HostClientEnableMOTDNotification | Whether or not to enable MOTD notification on login for Host Client | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.HostClientEnableVisualEffects | Whether or not to enable visual effects for Host Client | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.HostClientSessionTimeout | Default timeout for Host Client sessions in seconds | 900 | 900 | 0 | 7200 | True |
UserVars.HostClientShowOnlyRecentObjects | Whether or not to show only recent objects in Host Client | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.HostClientWelcomeMessage | The welcome message that is displayed when a user logs into the Host Client | Welcome to {{hostname}} | Welcome to {{hostname}} | N/A | N/A | True |
UserVars.HostdStatsstoreRamdiskSize | Explicitly specify size for the ramdisk hostd uses to store stats (in megabytes, 0 default). Takes effect after hostd service is restarted. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1024 | True |
UserVars.ProductLockerLocation | Path to VMware Tools and vSphere Client repository | /locker/packages/vmtoolsRepo/ | /locker/packages/vmtoolsRepo/ | N/A | N/A | True |
UserVars.SuppressCoredumpWarning | Do not show warning for disabled or unconfigured coredump target | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.SuppressHyperthreadWarning | Do not show warning for potential security vulnerability due to hyperthreading | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.SuppressSgxAddPackageWarning | Do not show warning for SGX disabled due to the addition of a CPU package to the host. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.SuppressSgxDisabledWarning | Do not show warning for SGX disabled due to Intel Errata CFW101. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.SuppressShellWarning | Do not show warning for enabled local and remote shell access | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
UserVars.ToolsRamdisk | Use VMware Tools repository from /tools ramdisk. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VFLASH.CacheStatsEnable | Vitual Flash Read Cache statistics enable ? | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VFLASH.CacheStatsFromVFC | Use cache statistics from virtual Flash Read Cache module ? | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VFLASH.MaxCacheFileSizeMB | Maximum file size (in MB) of virtual Flash Read supported | 409600 | 409600 | 4 | 409600 | True |
VFLASH.MaxDiskFileSizeGB | Maximum supported disk size (in GB) with virtual Flash Read Cache configuration | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 16384 | True |
VFLASH.MaxHeapSizeMB | Maximum size (in MB) to which the virtual flash heap is allowed to grow | 32 | 32 | 16 | 128 | True |
VFLASH.MaxResourceGBForVmCache | Maximum supported virtual flash resource (in GB) to be allocated for VM caches | 2048 | 2048 | N/A | N/A | False |
VFLASH.ResourceUsageThreshold | Threshold (in percentage) of virtual flash resource usage | 80 | 80 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMFS.UnresolvedVolumeLiveCheck | Enable/disable liveliness check during unresolved volume query. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMFS3.EnableBlockDelete | Enable VMFS block delete when UNMAP is issued from guest OS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.FailVolumeOpenIfAPD | Fail VMFS volume open operation if the underlying device is deemed to be under an all-paths-down condition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.GBLAllowMW | Enable support for more than 8 hosts using multi-writer mode locks on virtual-disks | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking | Enable hardware accelerated VMFS locking (requires compliant hardware). Please see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2094604 before disabling this option | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.LFBCSlabSizeMaxMB | Maximum size (in MB) to which the VMFS affinity manager cluster cache is allowed to grow. | 8 | 8 | 1 | 128 | True |
VMFS3.MaxAddressableSpaceTB | Maximum size of all open files that VMFS cache will support before eviction mechanisms kick in | 32 | 32 | 32 | 128 | True |
VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB | Maximum size (in MB) to which the VMFS heap is allowed to grow | 768 | 768 | 16 | 768 | True |
VMFS3.MaxextendedTxnsUsingfs3Heap | Maximum number of extended transactions for which log space can be allocated from VMFS3 heap when the extendedTxnRegion is full | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 | True |
VMFS3.MinAddressableSpaceTB | Minimum size of all open files that VMFS cache will support (guaranteed) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | True |
VMFS3.OpenWithoutJournal | Open file system when out of space for journal allocation, allowing reads and no meta-data updates | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.PBCapMissRatioIntervalSec | Frequency (in seconds) that the Capacity Miss Ratio is computed for the VMFS Pointer Block cache. | 60 | 60 | 1 | 1800 | True |
VMFS3.StAtExclLockEnd | Generate Back Trace in FS3_EndIOExclusive | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMFS3.UseATSForHBOnVMFS5 | Use ATS for Heartbeat on ATS supported VMFS5 volumes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VMkernel.Boot.allowCoreDumpOnUsb | Enable/Disable creation of core dump file on USB devices. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.atsSupport | Enable/Disable PCIe Address Translation Services | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.autoCreateDumpFile | If enabled and if no suitable dump partition or dump file exists, create a dump file. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.autoPartition | Enable/Disable auto-partitioning of empty local disks. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.autoPartitionCreateUSBCoreDumpPartition | Enable/Disable auto-partitioning of core dump partition for USB boot devices. Requires that autoPartition is set to TRUE as well. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.autoPartitionDiskDumpPartitionSize | Disk dump partition size in MB that gets configured during the auto-partition process. | 2560 | 2560 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.bootDeviceRescanTimeout | Boot device rescan timeout (in minutes). | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.busSpeedMayVary | Allow different APIC timer speeds on different CPUs. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.cacheFlushImmOnAllHalt | Flush caches immediately if all cores sharing LLC halt (AMD only) | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.checkCPUIDLimit | Refuse to run on CPUID limited cpus. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.checkPages | Check that free and free-lpage-pool pages are not corrupted. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.com1_baud | Baud rate for COM1 (0 -> automatic) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.com2_baud | Baud rate for COM2 (0 -> automatic) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.debugBreak | Break into debugger during vmkernel initialization. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.debugLogToSerial | 0=Serial debug logging off, 1=Serial debug logging on, 2=Defer to config option DebugLogToSerial. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.deviceBindParallel | Enable parallel binding of devices across drivers in the device manager. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.disableACSCheck | Bypass ACS capability checks on all PCIE devices | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.disableCFOH | Disable Cache Flush on Halt | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.disableHwrng | Disable hardware random number generator (RDRAND, RDSEED). Overrides VMkernel.Boot.entropySources. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.diskDumpSlotSize | Disk dump slot size in MB. 0 = automatically sized, otherwise requested size >= 100 MB. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.dmaEngineExposeIdentityMapping | Whether to expose whether DMA engines do identity mapping. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.dmaMapperPolicy | DMA mapping policy to use. | disabled | disabled | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.dumpSize | Maximum core dump file size in MB. Used for automatic core dump file creation. 0 = automatically sized. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.enableACSCheckForRP | Enable ACS capability checks for Root Port | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.entropySources | Which entropy sources to enable. 0=defaults, otherwise bitmask values: 1=interrupts, 2=RDRAND, 4=RDSEED, 8=entropyd. If RDSEED is supported, the default is FIPS compliance. Otherwise the default is all entropy sources except entropyd. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.execInstalledOnly | Execute only those files that have been installed via a vib package and have not been modified. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.fakePMemPct | Amount of fake persistent memory (in pct of all volatile memory) | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.forceHyperthreadingMitigation | Restrict the simultaneous use of logical processors from the same hyperthreaded core regardless of detected security vulnerabilities. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.fsCheck | Run filesystem checks on system partitions. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.gdbPort | gdb port; com1 or com2 | default | default | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapCheckTimerInterval | Interval in seconds between heap timer checks | 10 | 10 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapFreePoisonByte | Byte pattern used to poison freed memory | 255 | 255 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapMetaPoisonByte | Byte pattern used to poison red zones for allocations | 90 | 90 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapMetadataProtect | Use poisoned red zones to protect against under/overruns | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapPoisonFreeMem | Poison free memory to catch use after free bugs | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.heapPoisonTimerChecks | Check heap poisoned areas for corruption on regular intervals | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.hyperthreading | Enable hyperthreading if available. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.hyperthreadingMitigation | Restrict the simultaneous use of logical processors from the same hyperthreaded core as necessary to mitigate a security vulnerability. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.hyperthreadingMitigationIntraVM | Restrict the simultaneous use of logical processors from the same hyperthreaded core as necessary to mitigate a security vulnerability within a single VM. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.ignoreMsrFaults | Ignore general protection faults as a result of rdmsr and wrmsr instructions | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.inputPassthru | Pass HID input devices through to user worlds via character device | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.intrBalancingEnabled | Indicates if interrupt balancing is enabled. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.ioAbilityChecks | Enforce checking of whether regions can be DMA mapped. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.iovDisableIR | Disable Interrupt Remapping in the IOMMU. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.iovEnablePostedIntr | Enable support for posted interrupts in the IOMMU. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.ipmiEnabled | Enable IPMI | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.isPerFileSchedModelActive | Enable per file scheduling model on this host | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.kbddev | Enable VMkernel char driver interface between host keyboard and Guest | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.leaveWakeGPEsDisabled | Disallow a wake GPE from also being a runtime GPE | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.logEFILevel | Log level for LogEFI. | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.logPort | Serial port to enable for logging; com1 or com2 | default | default | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.maxLogEntries | Size of the kernel log buffer in 256-byte lines. 0=Use default. Min is 1024. Max is 32768. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.maxPCPUS | Number of PCPUs vmkernel should use. | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.maxPCPUsNUMAInterleaving | Enable NUMA-node interleaving of enabled PCPUs. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.maxVMs | Max number of VMs VMKernel should support. 0 == determine at runtime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.memCheckEveryWord | Check every single word when checking mem. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.memLowReservedMB | Amount of low memory (< 4 GB) which gets reserved. 0 == determine at runtime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.memmapMaxEarlyPoisonMemMB | Memory that should be poisoned during early initialization. | 65536 | 65536 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.memmapMaxPhysicalMemMB | Maximum physical memory (in MB) addressable by kernel, used to calculate the cut-off MPN, when added to the first valid memory MPN. | 0 | 0 | -9223372036854775808 | 9223372036854775807 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.memmapMaxRAMMB | Maximum conventional memory (RAM) supported on the system. Additional RAM above this limit will not be used by the system. | 33585088 | 33585088 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.microcodeUpdate | Update microcode from boot module if available | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.microcodeUpdateForce | Disable check that microcode update is newer than installed microcode and that both are released versions | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netCoalesceTimerHdlrPcpu | Pcpu that coalesce timeout handler runs on. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netGPHeapMaxMBPerGB | Maximum MB of the general purpose networking heap to be allocated per GB of physical memory. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netMaxPktsToProcess | Maximum number of packets to process in each invocation packet processing routine | 64 | 64 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netMaxPktsToRelease | Maximum number of packets to release in each invocation packet releasing routine | 128 | 128 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netNetqueueEnabled | Enable/Disable NetQueue support. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netNetqueueEnblSwlroWithPnicHwlro | Enable/Disable SWLRO for PNIC with HWLRO. Requires REBOOT. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netNetqueueMaxFiltersPerUplink | Maximum number of netqueue filters for Uplink. Maximum value for this setting is 32768. Requires REBOOT. | 4096 | 4096 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netNetqueueMaxLearnedFilters | Maximum number of hostwide netqueue learned filters. Maximum value for this setting is 16384. Requires REBOOT. | 9216 | 9216 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netNetqueueMaxStaticFilters | Maximum number of hostwide netqueue static filters. Maximum value for this setting is 16384. Requires REBOOT. | 10240 | 10240 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPagePoolLimitCap | Maximum number of pages period for the packet page pool. | 1048576 | 1048576 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPagePoolLimitPerGB | Maximum number of pages for the packet page pool per gigabyte. | 5120 | 5120 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPagePoolResvCap | Maximum number of pages to reserve for the packet page pool. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPagePoolResvPerGB | Number of pages to reserve for the packet page pool per gigabyte. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPktHeapMaxMBPerGB | Maximum MB of low-memory packet heap to be allocated per GB of physical memory. Maximum value for this setting is 512. | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPktHeapMinMBPerGB | Minimum MB of low-memory packet heap to be allocated per GB of physical memory. Maximum value for this setting is 512. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPktPoolMaxMBPerGB | Maximum MB of networking packet buffer pool to be allocated per GB of physical memory. Maximum value for this setting is 512. Net packet pool maximum per system will be at least 656MB. | 75 | 75 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPktPoolMinMBPerGB | Minimum MB of networking packet buffer pool to be allocated per GB of physical memory (multiple of 24) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.netPreemptionEnabled | Enable/disable preemption support in overall networking area | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.nmiAction | Action on hardware generated NMI: 0=default (panic, unless changed by advanced config option), 1=enter debugger, 2=panic, 3=log and ignore (not recommended), 4=log and ignore if undiagnosed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.numSpareCoresPerLLC | Number of spare cores reserved at boot time per last-level cache (LLC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.numaLatencyRemoteThresholdPct | Maximum measured memory access latency difference (in percent units) between 2 pairs of NUMA nodes for the pairs to be considered equidistant | 10 | 10 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.overrideDuplicateImageDetection | Override duplicate ESXi image detection | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.pciBarAllocPolicy | PCI BAR allocation policy; 0=first-fit, 1=smallest-fit, 2=BAR-fit | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.pcipDisablePciErrReporting | Disable error reporting for PCI passthru devices. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.poisonMarker | Value used to poison memmap pages | -6148914691236517206 | -6148914691236517206 | -9223372036854775808 | 9223372036854775807 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.poisonPagePool | Poison memmap pages | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.preventFreePageMapping | Prevent mapping of free pages | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rdmaRoceIPBasedGidGeneration | Use the new IP-based GID generation for RoCE. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rdmaUseTeamingPolicy | Use teaming policy for rdma connection. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rtcEnableEFI | Enable UEFI Runtime Services as real time clock | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rtcEnableLegacy | Enable legacy CMOS device as real time clock | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rtcEnableLegacyForce | Enable legacy CMOS device as real time clock even if FADT has the CMOS RTC Not Present flag set | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.rtcEnableTAD | Enable ACPI 5.0 Time and Alarm Device as real time clock | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.scrubIgnoredPages | Check pages that were ignored due to vmbIgnoreStartMPN and vmbIgnoreNumMPNs boot options. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.scrubMemoryAfterModuleLoad | Check all memory after each module load. This causes booting to be very slow. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.serialUntrusted | Disable serial port if UART misbehaves. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.skipPartitioningSsds | If enabled, skip auto-partitioning of empty local SSDs. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storAdptrMultCplWrldsPerNuma | Pcpu Based multiple adapter completion worlds per Numa | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storageHeapMaxSize | Maximum size in bytes of the main storage heap | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storageHeapMinSize | Minimum size in bytes of the main storage heap | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storageMaxDevices | Maximum number of supported SCSI devices | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storageMaxPaths | Maximum number of supported SCSI paths | 4096 | 4096 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.storageMaxVMsPerDevice | Maximum number of VMs expected to use a given device | 32 | 32 | 0 | 4294967295 | False |
VMkernel.Boot.swMemoryTiering | Enable Software Memory Tiering | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL | Terminate virtual machine on permanent loss of storage | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.tscSpeedMayVary | Allow different TSC speeds on different CPUs. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.tty1Port | TTY1 port; com1, com2 ... to enable | default | default | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.tty2Port | TTY2 port; com1, com2 ... to enable | default | default | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.updateBusIRQ | Allow adding/removing busIRQ information | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.useNUMAInfo | Enable/disable NUMA-ness | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.useReliableMem | System is aware of reliable memory. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.useSLIT | Use NUMA latency information from the SLIT table if available | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.vga | Enable/Disable VGA support | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.vmkATKeyboard | Enable VMkernel AT keyboard driver. | False | False | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.vmkacEnable | 0=Disabled, 1=Enforcing, 2=Do not enforce, just warn | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.vmmrEnable | Enable/Disable vmmr, vmkernel monitoring of x86 host-wide and per-vm stats. 0=Disable, 1=Enable | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.vtdSuperPages | Enable support for VT-d Super Pages (aka 2MB, 1GB large pages); super-page usage is dependent on this option as well as hardware support. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VMkernel.Boot.x2ApicPreferred | Use x2APIC if available, even with less than 256 cpus. | True | True | N/A | N/A | False |
VSAN-iSCSI.iscsiPingTimeout | Interval between ping (NOP-Out) requests, in seconds | 5 | 5 | 0 | 60 | True |
VSAN.AutoRestoreDecomState | Whether to restore vSAN node decommission state automatically during vSAN refresh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.AutoTerminateGhostVm | Automatically terminate ghost VM(s) during network partition | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.ClomForceProvisionPlacements | Add Force provisioning flag for all new object placement requests | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSizeGB | Maximum component size used for new placements | 255 | 255 | 10 | 255 | True |
VSAN.ClomMaxDiskUsageRepairComps | Percentage disk fullness after which no new repair components can be placed on a given disk | 95 | 95 | 0 | 100 | True |
VSAN.ClomRebalanceThreshold | Percentage disk fullness after which rebalancing is triggered | 80 | 80 | 0 | 100 | True |
VSAN.DedupScope | The default deduplication scope for in all-flash disk group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | True |
VSAN.DefaultHostDecommissionMode | Default host decommission mode for a given node | ensureAccessibility | ensureAccessibility | N/A | N/A | True |
VSAN.DomBriefIoTraces | Enables a brief set of per-IO DOM traces for debugging | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.DomFullIoTraces | Enables the full set of per-IO DOM traces for debugging | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.DomLongOpTraceMS | Trace ops that take more than the specified value in milliseconds | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 600000 | True |
VSAN.DomLongOpUrgentTraceMS | Urgent trace ops that take more than the specified value in milliseconds | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 600000 | True |
VSAN.MaxComponentsPerWitness | Maximum number of components for a witness host | 0 | 0 | 0 | 320000 | True |
VSAN.MaxWitnessClusters | Max number of clusters on a witness node | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | True |
VSAN.ObjectScrubsPerYear | Option to set the scrubbing rate as scrubs-per-year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 525600 | True |
VSAN.ObjectScrubsPerYearBase | Maximum scrubs-per-year of an object for disk group utilization based scrubbing. | 36 | 36 | 1 | 525600 | True |
VSAN.PerTraceBandwidthLimit | Max number of traces per second (0 to disable limits) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.PerTraceBandwidthLimitPeriodMs | Add BANDWIDTH_LIMIT * PERIOD_MS tokens (traces) every PERIOD_MS. | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 10000000 | True |
VSAN.PerTraceMaxRolloverPeriods | Maximum number of periods where unused bandwidth can accumulate | 360 | 360 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.RDTChecksumMode | Checksum mode for RDT-level checksum | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableCmmds | Enables tracing for vSAN CMMDS and CMMDSResolver components | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableDom | Enables tracing for vSAN DOM component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableDomIo | Enables tracing for vSAN DOMIO component | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableLsom | Enables tracing for vSAN LSOM component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableLsomIo | Enables IO tracing for vSAN LSOM component | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnablePlog | Enables tracing for vSAN PLOG component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableRdt | Enables tracing for vSAN RDT component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableSsdLog | Enables tracing for vSAN SSDLOG component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableVirsto | Enables tracing for vSAN Virsto component | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableVirstoIo | Enables IO tracing for vSAN Virsto component | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableVsanSparse | Enables tracing for VsanSparse FDS operations | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableVsanSparseIO | Enables tracing for VsanSparse I/O operations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceEnableVsanSparseVerbose | Enables tracing for details of VsanSparse I/O operations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.TraceGlobalBandwidthLimit | Max number of traces per second (0 to disable limits) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.TraceGlobalBandwidthLimitPeriodMs | Add BANDWIDTH_LIMIT * PERIOD_MS tokens (traces) every PERIOD_MS. | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 10000000 | True |
VSAN.TraceGlobalMaxRolloverPeriods | Maximum number of periods where unused bandwidth can accumulate | 360 | 360 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.TracesPerErrorBandwidthLimit | Maximum number of traces per second during specific error conditions (0 to disable limits) | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.TracesPerErrorBandwidthLimitPeriodMs | Add BANDWIDTH_LIMIT * PERIOD_MS tokens (traces) every PERIOD_MS | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 10000000 | True |
VSAN.TracesPerErrorMaxRolloverPeriods | Maximum number of periods where unused bandwidth can accumulate | 60 | 60 | 0 | 1000000 | True |
VSAN.TrimDisksBeforeUseGranularity | Trim the devices (if supported) before using for vSAN. 0=Disable, 1=MetaData only, 2=Full Disk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseCacheOverEvict | Percentage of VsanSparseCacheThreshold to add to eviction | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseCacheThreshold | Maximum VsanSparse cache size, in cache entries | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseEnabled | Enable auto-creation of vsanSparse instead of vmfsSparse redologs, for vSAN 2.0 datastore only. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseHeapSize | Maximum heap size for VsanSparse snapshot consolidation buffers (in KiB) | 65536 | 65536 | 256 | 131072 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseMaxExtentsPrefetch | Maximum number of extents to fetch during interrogation | 64 | 64 | 0 | 128 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseParallelLookup | Request written extent data from each layer in parallel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseRetainCacheOnSnapshots | Try to retain VsanSparse in-memory cache content when taking VM snapshots | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseRetainCacheTTL | Maximum time to retain VsanSparse in-memory cache content between snapshots, in seconds | 20 | 20 | 0 | 3600 | True |
VSAN.VsanSparseSpeculativePrefetch | Number of bytes to add to each extent interrogation request | 4194304 | 4194304 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
VSAN.WriteZeroOnTrimUnsupported | Enable Writing Zero's on capacity devices that do not support TRIM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VVOL.allowLegacyCiphers | Allow vVOL daemon to use legacy cipher for TLS communication with VASA Provider [Warning: Non-PFS ciphers!] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | True |
VVOL.vvolConcurrentBatchUnbind | Number of concurrent batch unbind requests | 2 | 2 | 1 | 20 | True |
VVOL.vvolMaxRBZRetries | Maximum number of times RBZ is retried during Rebind | 100 | 100 | 20 | 600 | True |
VVOL.vvolSpaceStatsCacheSize | Size of the swap VVOL cache in (must be <= 1024) VVOLD | 512 | 512 | 0 | 1024 | True |
VVOL.vvolSwapFilePersist | Disable deletion of swap file on vVol datastore when the VM powers off (1 to disable). | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |
VVOL.vvolUnbindBatchSize | Batch size for the Batch unbinding for VVOLs | 16 | 16 | 2 | 256 | True |
Virsto.DiskFormatVersion | Virsto Disk Format version | 19 | 19 | 2 | 19 | True |
Virsto.Enabled | Use Virsto format for new disks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | True |
Virsto.FlusherRegistryThreshold | Flusher registry data size threshold (percentage) when metadata flush is forced | 95 | 95 | 50 | 100 | True |
Virsto.GweFetchExtentsFactor | Multiplier controlling how many on-disk extents fetched based on GWE request size | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | True |
Virsto.InstanceHeapLimit | Heap limit for each Virsto instance (disk) in MB | 130 | 130 | 128 | 4095 | True |
Virsto.MapBlocksFlushThreshold | A threshold for dirty entries of map block cache when metadata flush is forced (in count of 4KB blocks) | 90 | 90 | 50 | 100 | True |
Virsto.MapBlocksMin | Map block cache minimum for each Virsto instance (in count of 4KB blocks) | 16384 | 16384 | 16 | 4294967295 | True |
Virsto.MaxMFRetryCount | How many times Virsto metadata flusher retries in case of a transient error. | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4294967295 | True |
Virsto.MsecBeforeMetaFlush | Force Virsto metadata flush after this many msec | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 86400000 | True |
Virsto.RecordsPerFormatWrite | Number of (LSAR) records written per format write operation | 16 | 16 | 1 | 128 | True |
Virsto.SharedHeapLimit | Shared heap limit for Virsto module in MB | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4095 | True |
XvMotion.VMFSOptimizations | Enable VMFS-specific IO optimizations | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | True |