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Tag: pvs
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Why PVS isn’t going away
There seems to be quite a bit of discussion on Citrix replacing Provisioning Services (PVS) with Machine Creation Services (MCS), especially in the new release hopefully going GA soon. In light of the new release, while MCS is expanding and finding more uses, I think people forget why PVS is still relevant and the best use cases for it. Let's start with the common objections to ...
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Citrix FlexCast Style: Delivering XenApp on Hyper-V with PVS and McAfee
Follow me @TonySanchez_CTX Architectures—whether physical or virtual—should be flexible enough to adapt to different workloads, allowing them to support changing business needs. Although implementing a new IT architecture takes time and careful planning, the process to test and validate an architecture should be easy. In the case of a virtual desktop architecture, test engineers should be able to follow a repeatable pattern, step by step, ...
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Provisioning Services (PVS) Boot Process Demystified!
DHCP Options and PXE Servers and Bootstrap files. Oh my! DHCP Options and PXE Servers and Bootstrap files. Oh my! Does walking through the Provisioning Services (PVS) Boot Process make you feel a little uneasy like Dorothy did on that yellow brick road? Does it seem like there is a little magic to how PVS works? There’s nothing to be afraid of. Come join me ...
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PVSDataTools 1.2.2
We want to take the opportunity to announce the PVSDataTools which is a new tool recently released by the Provisioning Services (PVS) Escalation Team. PVSDataTools is a set of tools used to collect and parse data from a Provisioning Services (PVS) Server to assist in troubleshooting an issue. PVSDataTools contains two tools: PVSDataCollector and PVSDataParser. PVSDataCollector The PVSDataCollector collects the following information from the PVS Server: System Information Windows Event Logs TCP ...
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XenTools and XenServer 6.1
Citrix understands and acknowledges that some customers are experiencing intermittent Windows issues with XenTools in the XenServer 6.1 release. We understand this is frustrating for customers and we have been working hard to analyze, understand and resolve these issues. We are in the final stages of preparing a Hotfix for all XenServer 6.1 installations. This addresses the following known issues: Add PVS support in XS 6.1 Resolve intermittent ...
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PVS Internals 1 – cache manager
Before reading this article, you definitely want to check out the amazing whitepaper from Dan Allen called Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services. I’m not going to explain the basics here, so I recommend you do your homework first. I’m going to write a follow up blog post later on. This first part will focus on the theory, while the second part will focus ...
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Should You Virtualize PVS? (Part 2)
In my inaugural blog post (which you should check out before reading this follow-up article), I asked this same question about 18 months ago. I've always been a big fan of virtualizing PVS and de-bunking the myth that PVS had to be physical, but unfortunately, the answer to that question a year and a half ago was "maybe" or "only in certain situations". In this ...
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Is Isolating the PVS Streaming Traffic Really a Best Practice?
I get this question a lot. Maybe not as much as 'Should I Virtualize PVS?' or 'How many users/VMs can I get on a box?', but I get this question quite a bit. And I felt like it was time to address this since I see our customers, partners and even our own Consultants attempting to isolate the PVS streaming traffic onto its own network ...
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XenDesktop and Provisioning Services on vSphere 5
I want to preface this post by saying if you are not interested in any backstory just skip down to the summary section for a wrap up... Coming from a consulting background I learned the hard way that you always have to check the compatibility of all components in a project. Since VMware released vSphere 5 many people found out the hard way that Citrix Provisioning ...
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How to modify the Access Mode of a vDisk using Powershell in PVS 6.1.
This past week I was asked by a customer if the access mode of a vDisk in PVS could be modified via powershell. After some research and trial and error, I have figured out the following command will allow you to perform this task via the command line or script. mcli-set disk -p diskLocatorId='906831ee-80df-4ec7-a52c-bc25efedcd28',diskLocatorName=vDiskName,siteId=b576df60-a895-4fdb-90b7-738f363102db,storeId=7d80b5ca-162f-41d7-93b8-60129931f5c6 -r WriteCacheType=0 Command Anatomy: mcli-set disk –p : this is the command that allows ...