Provisioning Services

Load Balancing TFTP with Netscaler 10.5

September 17, 2014December 2, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, HA, high availability, load balancing, NetScaler, Provisioning Services, PVS, PXE, TFTP, XenApp, XenDesktop

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Implementing Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) is very common nowaday when it’s about deploying Shared Desktops (XenApp) or Pooled, Private or Personal Desktops (XenDesktop). If there are still some debate around about using TFTP+PXE vs using BDM (Boot Device Manager) I still observe a large number of deployment made using TFTP+PXE rather than BDM. Both of these...

Citrix PVS vs MCS – Despectus

April 17, 2014November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, Fast Provisioning, MCS, Provisioning Services, PVS, PVS vs MCS, XenApp, XenDesktop

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I know this subject has been cover thousand times here and there but this is an eternal discussion we have whatever the forum or the meeting going on when we speak about Citrix. To remind people not familiar with MCS or PVS here are the main differences : MCS : Machine Creation Service PVS :...

Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Create Persistent Hypervisor Connection and Hosting Unit, Unattended

July 8, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Automate, automation, network, Provisioning Services, pvDisk, PVS, Storage, Unattended, vmware, vmware esx, vSphere, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7, XenServer, XenServer 6.2

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I blogged about how to automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 deployment and database creation, and how to join and existing XenDesktop 7 site unattended, but now to continue and go a bit further in the automation process, I needed and wanted to know how to automate Hosting Configuration by Adding Connection and Resources to the DDC...

Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Installation

June 26, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, edgesight, MCS, Provisioning Services, PVS, Receiver, StoreFront, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7, XenServer

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XenDesktop 7 is now available with different features and entitlements (link) and yes there is a lot to read on this webpage but most of everything is already known features. So I will just write now what I read between the line : No more Citrix Streaming Application (RIP) in favor of Microsoft APP-V XenServer...

Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview – Installation

November 1, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Architecture, Avalon, Citrix, Excalibur, Merlin, Project, Provisioning Services, Receiver, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer

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Now we can play with Excalibur, I will split Overview, Installation and Configuration into 3 separate blog, so you can check it ASAP and navigate more easily in the blog part you need to check. Of course this blog is here to give you an overview of this new release for the one who don’t...

Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview

November 1, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Architecture, Avalon, Citrix, Excalibur, Merlin, Project, Provisioning Services, Receiver, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer

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As many of you might know Citrix are kind of melting all there product in one, a Cloud product. The project name is Avalon, with two releases until next year named Excalibur (what we will speak about in this blog post) and Merlin coming later next year. First, I spoke with many customers and other...

What’s new in XenDesktop 5.6 – PvD

April 3, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Architecture, New features, Personal vDisk, Provisioning Services, PvD, RingCube, UPM, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 5.6

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Now XenDesktop 5.6 is out, let go for a blog about what’s new and interesting in this release. It begins with official documentation, RTFM rules apply. Quick note, PvD technology is the integration of the RingCube technology bough by Citrix last year. What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6 XenDesktop 5.6 includes the following new features and...

PVS 6.1 Unable to initialize the network stack socket interface

March 10, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Bnistack, error, Provisioning Services, Windows 7, XenDesktop, XenServer, Xentools

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My XenServer lab has been updated / upgraded, XenDesktop is now 5.6, XenServer 6.0.2 and Provisioning Services is 6.1 now. I had one issue with this last one, I wasn’t able to create a new golden image for my brand new XenDesktop 5.6 setup… I was able to create the new VHD through the PVS...