Provisioning Services Ports: Source Destination Type Port Details Provisioning Server Provisioning Server UDP 6890– 6909 Inter-server communication Microsoft SQL Server TCP 1433 Communication with Microsoft SQL Server Domain Controller TCP 389 Communication with Active Directory Target Device (PVS outbound Broadcast/DHCPServer UDP 67 / 4011 Optional: Obtaining network boot information in case DHCP options 66 -TFTP Server…
We have several options to load balance target devices to vDisks. Under Subnet Affinity, they are None, Best Effort and Fixed. ** If we want to restrict PVS vDisk streaming to only some subnets, where PVS servers are spread across different subnets, we can use subnet affinity feature. Subnet Affinity When assigning the server and NIC combination…
TCP Chimney (sometimes referred to as TCP Offloading) This feature is designed to take processing of the network such as packet segmentation and reassembly processing tasks, from a computer’s CPU to a network adapter that supports TCP Chimney Offload. This has the effect of reducing the workload on the host CPU and moving it to…
Citrix Provisioning is software streaming technology that delivers patches, updates, and other configuration information to multiple virtual desktop endpoints through a shared desktop image. It centralizes virtual machine management while reducing the operational and storage costs of a virtualized desktop environment. Using citrix provisioning, you can stream OS from a single vhd/vhdx file to multiple…
Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS) streams the contents of the vDisk to the Client VMs (target device) on demand, in real time. The Client VMs boot directly across the network and behaves as if it is running from its local drive. This article talks about various steps involved in network boot and how the vDisk is…
The administrative role assigned to a user, or a group of users, controls the ability to view and manage objects within a Citrix Provisioning implementation. All members within a group share administrative privileges within a farm. An administrator may have multiple roles if they belong to more than one group. Groups are managed at the…
When offline database support is enabled on the farm, a snapshot of the database is created and initialized at server startup. It is then continually updated by the Stream Process. If the database becomes unavailable, the Stream Process uses the snapshot to get information about the Provisioning Server and the target devices available to the…
Citrix Provisioning provides an auditing tool that records configuration actions on components within the provisioning farm, to the provisioning database. The auditing tool provides administrators with a way to troubleshoot and monitor recent changes that might impact system performance and behavior. Administrator privileges determine the audit information that can be viewed and the menu options…
There are different ways on how you can load balance TFTP. Below are the ways on how you can do so: DNS Round Robin Entry DHCP with Multiple Entries Provisioning Services PXE Broadcast Provisioning Services Boot Device Manager NetScaler Use Source IP (USIP) NetScaler Direct Server Return (DSR) NetScaler Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Check…
Farm: A farm represents the top level of a Provisioning Services infrastructure. Farms provide a “Farm Administrator” with a method of representing, defining, and managing logical groups of Provisioning Services components into sites. All sites within a farm share that farm’s Microsoft SQL database. A farm also includes a Citrix License Server, local or network…