PVS Services: Soap Service is for PVS Console and management operations only and will not effect streaming at all. If this service is stopped any activity that involves the PVS GUI console will stop. You cannot connect to your PVS environment using PVS console. Stream service is responsible for streaming vDisk to the target devices…
PVS vDisk Capture process: Complete the following tasks on the master target device you are preparing to capture the image of an operating system: Create new VM and remove system reserved partition (Goto Remove System Partition while installing OS option given below) Install Hypervisor tools such as Hyper-V, XenServer, or VMware and restart the target device (lets…
In XenDesktop setup wizard, it guides same as creating catalog, adding number of vms, create ad accounts or not,what will be the new vm name, what is the new vms boot order, PXE or BDM etc etc.. same process as creating catalog. It creates catalog in xd and manages those vms. In Streamed VM Setup…
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…
We have two ways to update a pvs vDisk. Lets see both of them below: Process 1 (official): Right click on vdisk and choose version and create new version. This will create avhdx and pvp files. You can do this when there are existing connections on the vDisk. Set the update target device to maintenance…
We have two vDisk modes: Standard Image – Select this mode if a vDisk is shared by multiple target devices (write-cache options enabled). Private Image – Select this mode if a vDisk is only used by a single target device (read/write access is enabled). Standard Image mode Standard Image mode allows multiple target devices to…
Citrix Provisioning supports several write cache destination options. The write cache destination for a vDisk is selected on the General tab, which is available from the vDisk File Properties dialog. Considerations and requirements: Consider the impact of using server side persistent write cache. Persistent cache should only be used where unauthorized users have unprivileged access to a…
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…
If we want to rebuild our PVS server, It might be a very time taking process to uninstall all the components and reinstall them again. If we are working with production enviornment, we must be very careful and check if there are any components which are not properly uninstalled. If not, we again need to…
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…