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…

PVS benefits: Storage foot print would be very small for PVS. Using cache on ram, would give a better performance on overall VDI performance. Citrix Admins have complete control over user’s VDI. Windows updates in normal scenario take lot of network bandwidth and storage – With PVS, only one image should be updated, rest of…

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…

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…