PVS Server: Windows Event logging for UEFI target Devices Boot Time inaccurate

The customer had built a new UEFI based vdisk and deployed it to production. The customer subsequently observed that the PVS Servers were recording a clearly inaccurate boot time, of millions of minutes, in Windows Event logs when target devices were booting. Example inaccurate boot time logged i...

PVS Server SOAP service communication fails from remote PVS console

When setting up new Windows Server 2025 virtual machines on VMware to create two new PVS servers, the following issues occur: After installing PVS software and running configuration wizard successfully on the first PVS server, the PVS farm access using this PVS server was only possible using the...

PVS Server Down In Console After Upgrade to 2402CU1

After upgrading the first PVS Server in the FARM to 2402 CU1 and running the Configuration Wizard the PVS Server appears down in the console. The Configuration Wizard completes with errors. The following is one example found in the AOT logs:...

Provisioning Services Server Target Devices BSOD with KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE When Cache is Set on RAM

Provisioning Services PVS Server target devices streamed to a vSphere Virtual Machine displays a blue screen withKERNELSECURITYCHECKFAILURE when cache is set on RAM...

PVS server fail to boot with error “Login request timed out”

High percentage of PVS provisioned desktop servers fail to boot. This is the sequence of the events: 1. The servers boot with an ISO. 2. The tsbbdm.bin is downloaded from the 1st PVS on the site. 3. The streaming process fails. 4. Error pops up :“Login request timed out”. Rebooting the PVS server...

PVS server cannot logon database with Error "The Login is from an Untrusted Domain and Cannot ..."

PVS server console cannot be launched with error: "The database login failed." SQL server log error: "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Integrated authentication." "SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x8009030c, state 14 while establishing a connection...

How to Load Balancing PVS server in NetScaler

This article summaries tips when configure Load balance for PVS server...

PVS Server Fails to Connect Farm: "An error occurred communicating with the server"

One PVS Server Fails to connect farm: "An error occurred communicating with the server" with event id 0, SoapService...

Citrix Provisioning Services - Unable To Delete Server From Farm

While trying to delete a PVS server from the farm you are greeted by an unexpected error: Error Constraint Failed A database constraint caused an Add or Update to be stopped. --Details-- The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FKCeipDataServer". The conflict occurred in...

Citrix Provisioning Services - PVS Server 2303 Fails To Register With Citrix Cloud

While running the configuration wizard to register your PVS Server against Citrix Cloud you are greeted by an unexpected console error. "Error Registering Server, Sequence contains no matching element" as shown below: The PVS configwizard.log file will show you this exception:...

PVS server lost the connection to vDisk after storage failover.

vDisks are located in NAS storage which is created as failover group. After storage failover occurs, PVS server loses the connection to the vDisks and does not automatically recover it. Target devices freeze during that time since the vDisk I/O to NAS storage stops...

More data flow occupies by PVS server after copy/paste vdisk in use on NAS storage

Since customer need to execute scheduled backup tasks and vdisk update tasks,administrator may copy vdisk, which is in-using for data streaming from PVS server. Sometimes, data flow to NAS storage will increase even vDisk copy operation is finished. As the result, end user will experience pool...

PVS-1912 - Write cache redirected to server

Write cache redirected to PVS server during PVS Target Boot...

Citrix Provisioning Services - Target Fails To BDM Boot When Running The Imaging Wizard

When using BDM to boot the Master Target Device to capture a new vDisk it fails to boot. With verbose mode enabled in the bootstrap you will see the Target download the bootstrap and then login to a PVS Server at which point it will sit at a black screen indefinitely...

Write cache drives remain offline after creating the target devices through XDSW

Write cache drives remain offline after creating the target devices through XDSW. Moreover, the write cache data will be redirected to the PVS Server local diskautomatically...

The memory usage for SoapServer and StreamService keeps increasing slowly in the PVS server

According to our observation, the memory usage for SoapServer and StreamService keeps increasing slowly in the PVS server. The whole memory usage of that server is low. memory usage meansPrivate Working Set + Shared Working Set...

How to Migrate PVS server from one datastore to another datastore

Migrate PVS server from one datastore to another datastore...

Event 7011:Service Control Manager NLASVC Service Timings Out

PVS server becomes unresponsive with numerous event 7011 - A timeout 30000 milliseconds was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Nlasvc service...

The Soap service is not running on the PVS server

The Soap Server service isn't running.This service is needed to allow logging in to the Provisioning Services Console...

The Stream service is not running on the PVS server

The Stream Service is not running. This service is responsible for keeping all critical PVS services up and running...