| PATH | CURRENT VALUE | DEFAULT VALUE | MIN VALUE | MAX VALUE | IS HIDDEN | DESCRIPTION |
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| /config/BufferCache/intOpts/MaxCapacity | 16384 | 16384 | 1 | 20 | yes | Total capacity in KB allocated for the file system buffer cache |
| /config/BufferCache/intOpts/MaxFetchQuantum | 128 | 128 | 1 | 50 | yes | Maximum data (KB) that can be fetched in a single IO. Larger values fill adapter queues better but may monopolize resources. |
| /config/BufferCache/intOpts/MaxFlushQuantum | 1024 | 1024 | 32768 | 8388608 | yes | Maximum data (KB) that can be flushed in a single IO. Larger values fill adapter queues better but may monopolize resources. |
| /config/BufferCache/intOpts/RankedSemaphore | 1 | 1 | 3000000 | 6000000 | yes | Use ranked semaphores in BCFileHead |
| /config/COW/intOpts/CowCommitTimeout | 10 | 10 | 1 | 8192 | yes | Timeout(in seconds) for the commits of the redo logs |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWCopyOnRead | 0 | 0 | 1 | 600000 | yes | Enable Copy on Read in the vdisk COW layer |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWDiskSizeIncrement | 32768 | 32768 | 1 | 10000 | yes | Increment size(has to be sector aligned) in which the redo logs grow |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWMaxFileIORetries | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum number of times that a transient COW IO error should be retried |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWMaxHashBuckets | 32 | 32 | 13 | 300 | yes | Maximum Hash buckets for the COWSparseHashList |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWMaxSectorMappings | 3000000 | 3000000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum number of sector mappings fetched in one call |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWMinGranForDM | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 1 | 300000 | yes | Minimum COW grain size, in sectors, in order for DM to be leveraged |
| /config/COW/intOpts/COWReissueTimeoutMs | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2000 | yes | Time in milliseconds after which an async I/O for the requested grain should be requeued to the aio helper queues |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/ActiveReadyAdjust | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | adjust the activeReady time estimation based on run/(run+sleep) ratio, 0 to disable the adjustment |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/AggressiveHTMigrate | 1 | 1 | 0 | 500 | yes | specify the aggressiveness of HT idle migrations, from 0 (disable) to 2 (most aggressive) |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/AllowWideVsmp | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | yes | Allow VMs with more VCPUs than host PCPUs, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/CacheColdRun | 400 | 400 | 100 | 60000 | yes | worlds run for less than this threshold is considered as cache cold, specified in us |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/CacheColdSleep | 4000 | 4000 | 1 | 10000 | yes | worlds sleep for more than this threshold is considered as cache cold, specified in us |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/CorunBonus | 50 | 50 | 0 | 10000 | yes | ms to subtract from running vcpu's vtime to make corun easier |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/CpuSchedExitBacktrace | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | reports backtrace when a world exits, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/CpuSchedInternalDevel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | unused option for transient internal development and testing of CpuSched |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/DeferredChargeThreshold | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 32 | yes | Defer charging until cumulative uncharged usage exceeds this threshold (in microseconds) , 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/DeferredReschedRatio | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | yes | Defer reschedule if vcpu is less than 2 ^ CPU_DEFERRED_RESCHED_RATIO quantums behind the current running vcpu, a smaller value |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/FairnessRebalanceMin | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 100 | yes | minimal duration for fairness migration check (in us) |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/IdleQuantum | 10 | 10 | 100 | 10000 | yes | idle world quantum in milliseconds |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/IdleSwitchOpt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1000 | yes | idle switch optimization, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/IdleVtimeInterruptPenalty | 25 | 25 | 0 | 1 | yes | vtime penalty in ms per level of interrupt load |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/LoadHistorySamplePeriod | 6000 | 6000 | 1 | 200 | yes | load history sample period in milliseconds |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/LongTermTopolBalInterval | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Interval (in seconds) to do long term topology balance. |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/LongTermTopolImbalThreshold | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Log (base 2) of the threshold ratio |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/MachineClearThreshold | 100 | 100 | 0 | 7 | yes | machine clears per million cycles to trigger quarantine |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/MigratePenaltyInterLLC | 20 | 20 | 0 | 10000 | yes | ms to add to remote vcpu's vtime to make migration harder across LLC |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/MigratePenaltyIntraLLC | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100000 | yes | ms to add to remote vcpu's vtime to make migration harder within LLC |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/MigrationControlFlags | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | yes | World migration flags. Bit 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/NestedLevelAlert | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Alert when the max system service time accounting level is exceeded, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/PcpuIdleLoadThreshold | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1 | yes | The threshold (in percentage) below which a pcpu is considered idle |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/PcpuLongTermIdleLoadThreshold | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | yes | The threshold (in percentage) below which a pcpu is considered idle in the long term |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/PreemptionBonus | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 | yes | ms to subtract from running vcpu's vtime to make preemption harder |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/ReschedMinDeferUsec | 200 | 200 | 0 | 10 | yes | minimum time to defer rescheduling, in microseconds |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/ReschedToleranceUsec | 200 | 200 | 0 | 1 | yes | tolerance in reschedule delay, in microseconds |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/SchedulerDebug | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | extra debugging support for scheduler, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/StudyOverhead | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | For internal use only, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/SwitchWaitUSec | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100 | yes | wait-for-switch timeout in micro seconds, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TopolImbalThreshold | 15 | 15 | 0 | 1 | yes | CPU load imbalance threshold for topology rebalancing (in percentage units). |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TrackAdvancedStats | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Track advanced sched stats, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TrackCoSchedStats | 0 | 0 | 1 | 200 | yes | Track CoSched Stats, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TrackHistos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Track CPU histograms, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TrackMigrations | 0 | 0 | 1 | 99 | yes | track world migration statistics, 0 to disable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/TrackVmkTime | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | yes | Track vmkernel time for each vcpu, 0 |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/VcpuLoadAvgInterval | 200 | 200 | 0 | 1 | yes | msecs between vcpu load average updates |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/VsmpTopolConsolidate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2000 | yes | Default sibling vcpu package consolidation setting for VMs. 0 to disable, 1 to enable |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/WakeupMigImbalThreshold | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | yes | CPU load imbalance threshold for wakeup migration (in percentage units). |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/YieldThrottleUsec | 10 | 10 | 500 | 100000 | yes | min microseconds to wait between calls to throttled yield |
| /config/Cpu/intOpts/YieldWarnThreshold | 5000 | 5000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Warn when a world does not yield the CPU for time greater than this threshold (in milliseconds) , 0 to disable |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/HardwareAcceleratedInitFrequency | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of attempts after which we should retry hardware accelerated VMFS data initialization |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/HardwareAcceleratedMoveFrequency | 16384 | 16384 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of attempts after which we should retry hardware accelerated VMFS data movement |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/MaxHWTransferSize | 4096 | 4096 | 0 | 1000000 | yes | Maximum transfer size in KB per hardware DM I/O |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/MaxRetries | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | yes | Maximum number of times that a transient DM I/O error should be retried |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/MaxSWTransferSize | 64 | 64 | 0 | 1000000 | yes | Maximum transfer size in KB per software DM I/O (pins upto MaxTransfers * MaxTransferSize physical memory) |
| /config/DataMover/intOpts/MaxTransfers | 32 | 32 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Maximum number of outstanding I/Os (queue depth) |
| /config/DirentryCache/intOpts/DirentryCacheShelfLife | 5000 | 5000 | | | yes | Time (in msecs) before an object's name cache is invalidated |
| /config/FDS/intOpts/FDSHelperIdleTime | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum time in milliseconds for which file system device aio helper world will idle before exiting |
| /config/FDS/intOpts/FDSMaxReissue | 50 | 50 | 0 | 10000 | yes | Number of attempts an async I/O should be requeued to the aio helper queues in case of FDS retry errors |
| /config/FDS/intOpts/FDSNumAIORequests | 4096 | 4096 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of requests that can be queued to the file system device aio helper queue |
| /config/FDS/intOpts/FDSReissueTimeoutMs | 5 | 5 | 1 | 32768 | yes | Time in milliseconds after which an async I/O should be requeued to the aio helper queues in case of FDS retry errors |
| /config/FDS/intOpts/FDSReqWaitTime | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum time in milliseconds that file system device aio helper request will be blocked in queue before spawning additional hel |
| /config/FileSystem/intOpts/EnableLTRRootDirObj | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000 | yes | Enables long term residency status for an inactive root directory object such that it is never evicted from the object cache |
| /config/FileSystem/intOpts/ImageParserOpts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000 | yes | FS image parser option string |
| /config/FileSystem/intOpts/LockRetries | 15 | 15 | 1 | 1024 | yes | Maximum number of retries when encountering a VMFS-2 volume lock |
| /config/FileSystem/intOpts/ObjShelfLife | 1000 | 1000 | 8096 | 1000000 | yes | Time (in msecs) before an inactive object may be evicted from the object cache |
| /config/FileSystem/intOpts/VolShelfLife | 5000 | 5000 | 0 | 1000 | yes | Time (in msecs) before an inactive volume object may be evicted from the object cache |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSEnableDataMovement | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | Whether the VMKernel should handle data movement requests or not. |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSHelperIdleTime | 10000 | 10000 | 0 | 30000 | yes | Maximum time in milliseconds for which file system aio helper world will idle before exiting |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSIOSemaTimeoutMs | 120000 | 120000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Timeout (in milliseconds) for VM I/O operations while blocking on semaphores |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSNumAIORequests | 4096 | 4096 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of requests that can be queued to the file system aio helper queue |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSNumBaseFileHandles | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 100 | yes | Maximum number of base file handles (Requires a reboot) |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSNumFileHandlesPerVM | 128 | 128 | 0 | 65536 | yes | Maximum number of file handles (Requires a reboot) |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSReissueTimeoutMs | 500 | 500 | 100 | 30000 | yes | Time in milliseconds after which an async I/O should be requeued to the aio helper queues |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSReqWaitTime | 100 | 100 | 500 | 30000 | yes | Maximum time in milliseconds that file system aio helper request will be blocked in queue before spawning additional helpers |
| /config/FSS/intOpts/FSSSyncIOTimeout | 120 | 120 | 100 | 30000 | yes | Timeout (in seconds) for synchronous file-system I/O operations |
| /config/Irq/intOpts/VectorCacheBonusPct | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100 | yes | percent bias towards keeping interrupt routed to current pcpu |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/FreeLargePagesMin | 10 | 10 | 1 | 64 | yes | Minimum number of large pages free to allow a pool to allocate a lpage |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/FreeSmallPagesMax | 1024 | 1024 | 1 | 256 | yes | Maximum number of small pages free in a pool to allow a new lpage allocation |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/LPageBackEnableSleep | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 2048 | yes | Time to sleep (msecs) before retrying to enable large page backing |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/LPageBackFreeThresh | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2048 | yes | Minimum number of large pages free to allow large page backing |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/PoolReapBatchMaxSize | 512 | 512 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum number of small pages reaped per batch |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/PoolReapBatchMinSize | 32 | 32 | 0 | 1 | yes | Minimum number of small pages reaped per batch |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/PoolReapBatchShift | 5 | 5 | 1 | 256 | yes | Number of batches (in log2) required to reap a lpage pool completely |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/ReapNodeFreePages | 256 | 256 | 0 | 1 | yes | Node free small pages threshold to trigger reap |
| /config/LPage/intOpts/ReapTotalFreePages | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 1 | yes | Total free small pages threshold to trigger reap |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/DeviceLockTries | 30 | 30 | 1 | 4294967295 | yes | Number of times to attempt device lock acquisition. |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/DeviceLockWaitMS | 500 | 500 | 4 | 512 | yes | Time (in msecs) to wait before retrying device lock acquisition. |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/DisallowSnapshotLun | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | [DEPRECATED] Disallow access to snapshot LUN if resignaturing is off. This is ignored if resignaturing is on. |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/EnableResignature | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | [DEPRECATED] Enable Volume Resignaturing |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/LVMOpenLocklessTries | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 | yes | Number of times to attempt lockless LVM open. |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/LVMOpenLocklessWait | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1 | yes | Time (in msecs) to wait between LVM lockless opens. |
| /config/LVM/intOpts/StaleDeviceRetries | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of times to reprobe stale devices and retry volume operations that fail due to the same reason. |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/AllocLPagesFreedYeild | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100 | yes | Number of large pages/pframe dir MPNs processed before yeilding CPU |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/AllowFakeSampleStats | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000000 | yes | Allow guest/world to provide fake memory usage sampling statistics |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/MemSchedInternalDevel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128 | yes | unused option for transient internal development and testing of MemSched |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/MemZipCacheSlack | 1000 | 1000 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Compression cache slack space that it is allowed grow above the max percent size (in 4KB pages) |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/MemZipDefragLowThreshold | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | yes | Threshold for defragmenting the compression cache when the system is in the low memory state (in 4KB pages) |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/MemZipDefragThreshold | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 100 | yes | Threshold for defragmenting the compression cache (in 4KB pages) |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/MinReallocDeltaPct | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4294967295 | yes | Minimum fluctuation in free memory required to force a reallocation in the high memory state (expressed as percentage of manage |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SampleHistory | 4 | 4 | 5 | 300 | yes | history in periods |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SampleMinSize | 90 | 90 | 0 | 1 | yes | Min allowed sample set size in pages |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SampleSize | 100 | 100 | 0 | 32768 | yes | Sample set size in pages |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SanityCheck | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1800 | yes | Enable sanity testing on debug builds |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareCheckGHz | 0 | 0 | 1000 | 300000 | yes | max page check rate in MB/sec per GHz of host CPU, 0 to disable |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareCheckTime | 60 | 60 | 1 | 5000 | yes | desired time in minutes to check entire VM |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareCpuLowPct | 25 | 25 | 2 | 8 | yes | system-wide CPU load low threshold for increasing share scan/check rate |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareDecPct | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | yes | pct decrease in share scan/check rate when sharing is low |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareHiThresholdPct | 50 | 50 | 256 | 10240 | yes | actual pages shared high threshold for increasing share scan/check rate |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareIncPct | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1 | yes | pct increase in share scan/check rate when sharing is high |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareLowThresholdPct | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | yes | actual pages shared low threshold for decreasing share scan/check rate |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareNumLPageHints | 2 | 2 | 1 | 100 | yes | number of large page hints to install in pshare hash table |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareVmScanCpuMax | 4294967295 | 4294967295 | 0 | 100 | yes | CPU max (in MHz) for VMkernel based page share |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/ShareVmScanCpuShares | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1 | yes | CPU shares for VMkernel based page share |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SwapDuringCpt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | Enable swapping from VM when it is checkpointing |
| /config/Mem/intOpts/SwapThinSpaceMult | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | Swapfile size multiplier, used when checking if space is available for thin swapfiles. |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/BHTimeoutPanic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Panic if a bottom-half handler hits timeout [0 = only warn, 1 = panic] |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/BreakFromLogPortAllowed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Allow break into debugger from log port |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/DumpFromLogPortAllowed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Allow core dumping from log port |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/FindLongCLIsDump | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5000 | yes | Threshold in milliseconds for periods where interrupts are disabled for dumping samples |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/FindLongCLIs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000 | yes | Threshold in miliseconds for periods where interrupts are disabled for collection vmkstats samples |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/HostNameFromDhcp | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Hostname comes from DHCP |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/IntTimeoutPanic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Panic if an interrupt handler hits timeout [0 = only warn, 1 = panic] |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/LeastStackAvail | 1024 | 1024 | 0 | 28672 | yes | ASSERT available bytes on stack is higher than this amount |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/PageRetireEnableForQA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable QA related Page Retire VSI nodes |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/PsodOnCosPanic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | PSOD vmkernel on Service Console panic / oops |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/SpinLockLog2MaxDelay | 10 | 10 | 0 | 24 | yes | SpinLockMaxDelay = 2^SpinLockLog2MaxDelay - 1 cycles |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/SpinLockLog2MinDelay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | yes | SpinLockMinDelay = 2^SpinLockLog2MinDelay - 1 cycles |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/SpinLockTimeout | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2592000 | yes | Timeout on spin locks in seconds |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VerboseHelperDump | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Verbose logging of helper world and queue state in case of lockups |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VmkPcipIoapicShared | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Try getting ioapic interrupt in shared mode [default |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VmkPcipResetOverride | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Allow reset override for forcibly assigning passthru devices [default |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VmkStressEnable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable VMkernel Stress infrastructure |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VobAsyncEnable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable VMkernel async VOB recording infrastructure |
| /config/Misc/intOpts/VobSyncEnable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable VMkernel sync VOB recording infrastructure |
| /config/Misc/strOpts/CosCorefile | | | 1 | 6000000 | yes | Full path of vmfs file to use for Service Console core dumps |
| /config/Misc/strOpts/HostIPAddr | 172.30.0.91 | 127.0.0.1 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Host IP address |
| /config/Misc/strOpts/HostName | esxi4-5.primp-industries.com | localhost | 1 | 6000000 | yes | Host name |
| /config/Misc/strOpts/WorldletLooseTopoLevel | LLC | LLC | 60 | 4294967295 | yes | CPU topology level that applies to LOOSE affinities. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/AsyncTx | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2048 | yes | Enable asynchronous transmits |
| /config/Net/intOpts/CoalesceLtAllowance | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | yes | # half minor-cycle of low traffic to wait before re-calib turns epochInit |
| /config/Net/intOpts/CoalesceLtFineAdj | 1 | 1 | 0 | 255 | yes | whether to continue fineAdj calib if low traffic detected |
| /config/Net/intOpts/CoalesceMinorCycle | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4096 | yes | Number of timeouts in each minor cycle. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/CoalesceReCalibCnt | 16 | 16 | 0 | 4096 | yes | Number of minor cycles before Re-calibration is forced. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/CosTruncateOversize | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Truncate oversized packets received by COS. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/DebugVlan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable extensive consistency checks. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/ForceSwVlan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2147483647 | yes | When set to 1, NIC hw vlan Tx and Rx capabilities are not used. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/ForceSwVlanTx | 0 | 0 | 16 | 32 | yes | When set to 1, NIC hw vlan Tx capability is not used. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqAffinityChangeThresholdPerc | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1000 | yes | threshold percentage to replace current filter affinity to top filter |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqLoadAvgByteCountShift | 21 | 21 | 1 | 1500000 | yes | Netqueue load average normalization shift for byte counts |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqLoadAvgPktCountShift | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1000 | yes | Netqueue load average normalization shift for packet counts |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqLoadPktCountPerc | 50 | 50 | 1 | 100000 | yes | % importance given to packet counts when using mixed byte count and packet count metric for Netqueue load balancing |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqLoadRxScale | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1000 | yes | scaling factoe to use for rx load |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqLoadTxScale | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1500000 | yes | scaling factoe to use for tx load |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqRxMaxIntrvlOps | 32 | 32 | 1 | 1500000 | yes | Maximum number of Netqueue operations that will be issued in one interval |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqRxRebalIntrvl | 5000 | 5000 | 1 | 100000 | yes | Interval (in ms) between scans of Rx load distribution for netqueue filter rebalancing |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetNetqTxBalancing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable Tx queue balancing across priorities |
| /config/Net/intOpts/NetOpTxRcrMax | 3 | 3 | 0 | 80 | yes | Max levels of recrusion in opportunistic tx polling |
| /config/Net/intOpts/PadVlanRx | 1 | 1 | 32 | 128 | yes | When set to 1, vNIC rx will pad up to ETH_MIN_FRAME_LEN if necessary. |
| /config/Net/intOpts/UplinkTxDecayCounter | 40 | 40 | 0 | 1 | yes | How many times the load balancer has to run before deleting all the priority users ? |
| /config/Net/intOpts/VlanDevModeChecks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable development mode checks and message logging. |
| /config/Net/strOpts/ManagementAddr | 172.30.0.91 | 127.0.0.1 | 50 | 100 | yes | The IP address (v4 or v6) of the management interface that should be used for communication with the ESX host. |
| /config/Net/strOpts/ManagementIface | vmk0 | | 0 | 40 | yes | The name of the management interface that should be used for communication with the ESX host. |
| /config/NFS/intOpts/IndirectSend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 200 | yes | Use NFS indirect send |
| /config/NFS/intOpts/RPCConnTimeout | 5 | 5 | 5000 | 14000 | yes | Time (in seconds) before we determine that a TCP/IP connection is unresponsive (0 to disable) |
| /config/NFS/intOpts/UDPRetransmitDelay | 700 | 700 | 4 | 40 | yes | Time in milliseconds retransmitting a UDP RPC |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/LTermOwedEWMAConstant | 64 | 64 | 2 | 1024 | yes | reciprocal of the EWMA gain |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/MinMigInterval | 2 | 2 | 0 | 300 | yes | minimum time (in seconds) between node migrations |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/MonMigHistory | 17 | 17 | 0 | 100 | yes | minimum local history to trigger monitor node migration |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/MonMigLocality | 80 | 80 | 0 | 1 | yes | max percent remote overhead memory to trigger monitor node migration |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/MonMigTime | 300 | 300 | 0 | 51200 | yes | minimum time (in seconds) to allow for monitor migration |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/MonMigTriggerAnon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | yes | 1 to trigger monitor migrations on low anonymous(overhead) memory locality; overall memory locality otherwise |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/NodeMaxFreePct | 5 | 5 | 0 | 512 | yes | Always enable page migration if specified percentage of node memory is free, overriding NodeMinFreePerVM |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/NodeMinFreePerVM | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | yes | Minimum free memory per VM (in MB) on a NUMA node when page migration towards this node is enabled |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/NumaSchedInternalDevel | 0 | 0 | 64 | 10240 | yes | unused option for transient internal development and testing of NUMASched |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/RoundRobin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 200 | yes | 1 to use round-robin initial placement algorithm, 0 to place on node with most free memory |
| /config/Numa/intOpts/SwapLocalityThreshold | 20 | 20 | 0 | 65536 | yes | minimum percent memory locality improvement to trigger node swap |
| /config/Power/intOpts/ChargeInterval | 5 | 5 | 1000000 | 4000000 | yes | Frequency (in seconds) of VM energy charge cycles |
| /config/Power/strOpts/CpuPolicy | static | static | 100 | 30000 | yes | Host power management policy [DEPRECATED; use /power/currentPolicy VSI node] |
| /config/User/intOpts/CartelCoreDumpDelta | 2048 | 2048 | 0 | 100 | yes | Heap size reserved for core dumps (KB) |
| /config/User/intOpts/CartelInitialHeapSize | 100 | 100 | 8 | 3600 | yes | Initial cartel heap size (KB) |
| /config/User/intOpts/CartelNormalUseDelta | 2944 | 2944 | 0 | 8 | yes | Additional heap space (KB) |
| /config/User/intOpts/CartelPreallocDumpHeap | 0 | 0 | 5 | 86400 | yes | Preallocate heap required by userworld coredumps |
| /config/User/intOpts/CheckMMInfoSanity | 0 | 0 | 8 | 64 | yes | Enable additional checks on mmInfos in cartel fork paths |
| /config/User/intOpts/LogPipeWriteErr | 0 | 0 | 3 | 30 | yes | Log usermode stacktrace on pipe write error (debug only) [0 or 1] |
| /config/User/intOpts/ProxyCancelUpcallTimeout | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | yes | Timeout in milliseconds when waiting on cancel msg |
| /config/User/intOpts/ProxySendRecvTimeout | 60 | 60 | 0 | 8192 | yes | Timeout in seconds when waiting to send data to proxy |
| /config/User/intOpts/SocketConnectionType | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | yes | UserWorld socket connection, 0=Proxied, 1=VMK TCP/IP, 2=COS SHADOW TCP/IP |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASLR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Address space layout randomization for userworlds. 0 to disable, 1 global seed, 2 per-cartel |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASMinHeap64 | 262144 | 262144 | 3 | 360 | yes | The minimum heap size in KB for 64bit userworlds |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASMinHeap | 16384 | 16384 | 100 | 2000 | yes | The minimum heap size in KB for 32bit userworlds |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASMmapDataRandEnd | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3600 | yes | The maximum starting mmap data address. 0 for default |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASRandomSeed | 22239839 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | The PRNG seed to use in new userworlds |
| /config/UserMem/intOpts/UserMemASStackLowAddr | 0 | 0 | 64 | 264 | yes | The starting stack address for new userworlds. |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/BlockWriteOptimization | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1024 | yes | Enable file block write optimization |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ClusterEvictRetries | 4 | 4 | 16 | 128 | yes | Number of times to retry an operation upon a cluster eviction event |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ClusterEvictThreshold | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1000 | yes | Number of tries locking a resource cluster at which to pre-emptively abort all cached clusters |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ClusterLockRetries | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum number of retries locking a resource cluster |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ClusterLockWaitMult | 105 | 105 | 0 | 2000 | yes | Current wait time is multiplied by (ClusterLockWaitMult / 100) to obtain wait time for next cycle |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/DenseSBPerCluster | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16384 | yes | Increase the number of sub-block resources per cluster for freshly formatted VMFS-4 |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/DentryCacheEnable | 1 | 1 | 0 | 600 | yes | Enable name cache for VMFS3 |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/EnableDataMovement | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2048 | yes | Whether VMFS should handle data movement requests by leveraging FS3DM |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/EnableEagerEviction | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | yes | Whether to eagerly evict cached clusters upon reaching ClusterEvictThreshold |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/EnableOptLocking | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Enable optimistic locking |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/FailVolumeOpenIfAPD | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1024 | yes | Fail VMFS volume open operation if the underlying device is deemed to be under an all-paths-down condition |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/FileOpTries | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of times to attempt a file operation in case of transient failures |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/FixConsistencyError | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | yes | Fix errors during vmfs3 consistency checks |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/FS3CKVerbose | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | yes | FS3CK Verbose level |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/HardwareAcceleratedLockingFrequency | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of attempts after which we should retry hardware accelerated VMFS locking |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/HBRenewalRetries | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2048 | yes | Maximum number of retries renewing failed heartbeat before next scheduled iteration |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/HBsToGC | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1000 | yes | Number of stale heartbeats to garbage collect |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/HBTokenTimeout | 5000 | 5000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Time out (msecs) for Heartbeating request |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/LogATSMiscompare | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Log ATS miscompare |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/LookupRetries | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5000 | yes | Maximum number of retries when looking up an objects in directories |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/LookupWait | 50 | 50 | 1 | 20 | yes | Wait time (in msecs) before retrying lookup operations on a busy directory |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/MaxHBWait | 50000 | 50000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Time out (msecs) for waiting for Heartbeating to finish or reclaimed |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/MaxReserveTime | 200 | 200 | 1 | 4294967295 | yes | Maximum time (in msecs) a VMFS initiated reservation is normally held. |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/MinClusterLockWait | 2000 | 2000 | 0 | 4096 | yes | Time (in msecs) to wait before retrying to acquire a held cluster lock |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/OptLockReadTimeout | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 100 | yes | Timeout (in msecs) used for lock reads during optlock to physlock conversion |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/OptLockSleepMs | 100 | 100 | 1 | 4294967295 | yes | Time to sleep (msecs) before retrying an operation due to a stolen optimistic lock |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/OptLockWriteTimeout | 3000 | 3000 | 100 | 3600000 | yes | Timeout (in msecs) used for lock writes during optlock to physlock conversion |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/OptReadMaxLength | 1024 | 1024 | 128 | 8192 | yes | Maximum file length for which short-lived file reads will use optimistic file data fetching |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/OptReadTimeout | 1000 | 1000 | 0 | 1 | yes | Time (in msecs) beyond file open for which small file reads will use optimistic file data fetching |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/PhysLockTries | 5 | 5 | 50 | 500 | yes | Number of file operation attempts NOT to use optimistic locking. Should be less than or equal to FileOpTries. |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/RemoveRetries | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10000 | yes | Maximum number of retries removing an intermittently occuring object |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/RenameRetries | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10000 | yes | Maximum number of retries renaming source to destination, when destination exists intermittently |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ResvLostRetries | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5000 | yes | Number of times to attempt metadata update on reservation loss |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/ResvLostWaitMS | 10 | 10 | 1 | 200 | yes | Time (in msecs) to wait before attemptng metadata update on reservation loss |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/RevalidateDCCacheHit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | yes | Revalidate entries returned from name cache during lookup |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/SkipSearchingForSBSec | 60 | 60 | 0 | 10 | yes | If no SBs found, will skip searching SBs for this period of time (secs) |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/TimeoutSleepMs | 3000 | 3000 | 0 | 100 | yes | Time to sleep (msecs) before retrying an operation due to timeout errors |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/TimeoutTries | 10 | 10 | 256 | 32768 | yes | Number of times to attempt a file operation in case of timeout failure |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/TolerateSCSI3Incompliance | 1 | 1 | 100 | 5000 | yes | Tolerate SCSI-3 incompliance |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/TransactionRetries | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | yes | Maximum number of retries when committing a transaction to the VMFS journal |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/TransactionWait | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | yes | Number of milliseconds to sleep before retrying transaction disk actions on IO error |
| /config/VMFS3/intOpts/UseFileBlocksForDirsSymlinks | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | yes | Use File blocks for directories and symlinks when out of sub-blocks |
| /config/VMFS3/strOpts/ReservationDevice | | | 1 | 4294967295 | yes | Name of FDS device to use for VMFS reservations issued by this host |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/BagPages | 16 | 16 | | | yes | Size of VProbes bag storage in pages |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/DebugFlags | 0 | 0 | | | yes | Debug flags |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/Enable | 0 | 0 | | | yes | Enable VProbes |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/HeapMBytes | 6 | 6 | | | yes | Size of the VProbes heap in mbytes |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/TCPages | 8 | 8 | | | yes | Size of the VProbes TC in pages |
| /config/VProbes/intOpts/UnsupportedEnable | 0 | 0 | | | yes | Enable unsupported VProbes primitives |
| /config/World/intOpts/RefCountTracking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | yes | Enable refcount tracking in devel builds |
| /config/World/intOpts/WorldGroupInitialHeapSize | 72 | 72 | 0 | 30 | yes | Initial world group heap size (KB) |
| /config/World/intOpts/WorldGroupNormalUseDelta | 1375 | 1375 | 0 | 10 | yes | Additional world group heap space (KB) |
| /config/World/intOpts/WorldTraceFireMax | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | yes | Limit size of TraceFire buffer in devel builds |