Citrix Provisioning Issues Archives

Error: “No servers available for disk” When Booting from vDisk

Posted on June 20, 2019October 31, 2019

Note: In PVS 7.x the registry key that controls the stream process is now under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ProvisioningServices\StreamProcess. Browse to the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ProvisioningServices\StreamProcess. Modify or create SkipRIMSForPrivate to appear as DWORD 1.HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ProvisioningServices\StreamProcessDWORD: SkipRIMSForPrivateValue: 1This change needs to be made on all the PVS servers in the farm, after which the stream service should be restarted on PVS servers. At this point…

Cannot connect to the hypervisor at vcenter; Failed to connect to remote server – PVS error

Posted on August 7, 2018September 8, 2018

On PVS 7.15 LTSR, with server 2016 OS, you might end up with below error while using xendesktop setup wizard or streaming wizard: You might install your vcenter server certificate on your pvs server and navigate to https://vcenterserver/sdk without certificate errors, but still it wont work. On 2012 OS, TLS is enabled by default, in…

Hung threads stream process terminated

Posted on August 7, 2018September 8, 2018

Issue: copying OS via pvs imaging wizard in pvs base machine, would show a green status bar with the progress. It completes till the end, you wont see Done button. It will be in green progress bar forever. You might see an error in pvs event log: Event id: 11 Detected one or more hung threads….

Failed to Snapshot – PVS source machine error

Posted on January 29, 2016September 8, 2018

While using the imaging wizard, after rebooting the target device, it throws an error saying, Failed to snapshot instead of uploading OS into PVS vdisk. Solution: Enable Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider and Volume Shadow Copy service services. Set them to automatic. Problem Cause: Imaging Wizard and P2PVS require the source virtual machine to have both Volume…