Subnet mask missing in Windows once PVS target is booted via BDM

When booting a PVS target using a BDM with static IP and having DHCP enabled in the vdisk, Windows may be missing its subnet mask...

PVS Target Devices boot statistics very high bytes read

The customer had observed very slow PVS target boot time. Boot statistics on vDisk shows a long time to boot, over 600 seconds, and boot time bytes read of over 2.5 GB...

DHCP configurations for PVS

Citrix recommends DHCP configuration which ensures that a PVS target device receives the same IP address for all DHCP requests during its booted lifespan. The end result should be a target device using the same IP address it received at boot time, for the entirety of its booted lifespan. DHCP...

How to Capture a Network Trace for a PVS Target Device

This article describes how to capture a target-side network trace from a Provisioned Services PVS machine. Requirements Hypervisors: XenServer 5.x XenServer 6.x VMware ESX 4.x VMware ESXi 5.x Hyper-V 2012 Or Physical Environment including but not limited to HP/IBM/Dell/Cisco target devices...

Citrix Provisioning - Converting An Existing vDisk From BIOS To UEFI

Converting an existing BIOS vDisk into UEFI vDisk for future PVS Target Device support...

PVS target devices will not HA failover to another PVS server.

PVS target devices will not HA failover to another PVS server. Targets devices will freeze until the original server they were streaming from is available again. HA related configurations can be checked: The vdisk should beconfigured to use cache in ram with overflow to local device hard disk, an...

PVS Target Device Stuck at "Applying Computer Settings"

Provisioning Services PVS target device fail to boot. The target device stuck at applying computer settings stage and then trigger restart...

"The network logon service was not started" when logging onto PVS Target Device via Console

When logon PVS Target Device TD via console, it throws below error: "An attempt was made to logon but the network logon service was not started." TD VDI is unregistered status in Citrix Studio...

PVS Target Device hangs/freezes when placed under isolation by Windows Defender

The PVS Target VM goes into a hung state...

No device licenses are currently available error when using Server OS Target Devices

PVS Target devices report"No device licenses are currently Available" Restarting the PVS targets will temporarily make the error go away but it will re-appear after a brief period Under Target Device properties the assigned license will be listed as "n/a" despite licenses being available In the P...

PVS target BSOD on CVhdMp.sys

The VMWare based PVS target boots from the vdisk to message "Attempting to set IP address on Boot NIC..." and 60 seconds later BSODs. The vdisk will boot successfully on the master target device, but not on other devices...

How to capture a full memory dump from a PVS target running on Azure

This article will cover the steps necessary to prepare an Azure VM running PVS to be able to capture a full memory dump...

the PVS Target VMs cannot boot due to the following error message: --- Stop Code: SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED What Failed: CVhdMp.sys

The PVS Target VMs cannot boot due to the following error message: Stop Code: SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED What Failed: CVhdMp.sys...

Failed to uninstall/install PVS target device software via SCCM or command line.

When using SCCM or using a command line, PVS target device installation failed due to filesystem filter driver CFsDep2.inf is not installed error...

Event Viewer on the PVS Target Devices Shows: "Unable to update database with new machine account - The operation completed successfully. (0x0)"

Error shown in the Event Viewer on all the PVS Target Devices: Source: BNDevice EventID: 1014 Unable to update database with new machine account password - The operation completed successfully. 0x0. All PVS Target Devices are getting the same error every one hour after the first automatic attempt...

Windows 10 PVS target devices experience poor performance

After capturing a Windows 10 vdisk you might experience below par performance when streaming the vdisk to the target device. The issue can manifest in a number of ways, for example: 1. Long time to capture the vdisk. 2. Slow boot/login times. 3. Slow file transfer speeds compared to other...

PVS Target device boot up stuck at "Starting Windows" or "virtual disk found"

PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'Starting Windows' forever. Most of the time reboot the problem VM from the hypervisor the VM can boot up without issue. Also we could see the PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'vDisk found'...

PVS Image Not Able to Get DHCP Address, Group Policies Not Applying

Event ID 5719 is logged when you start a Domain Member that is a PVS target Event Type: Error Event Source: NETLOGON Event Category: None Event ID: 5719Date: DateTime: TimeUser: N/A Computer: ServerDescription:No Domain Controller is available for domain due to the following: There are currently ...

PVS target on ESXi hardware v10 and v11, fails to boot at "Starting Windows"

Target Devices Failing to boot,hanging at "Starting Windows" Wireshark trace shows Single IO phase of boot but BNIStack driver does not get loaded and no MIO Phase starts...

PVS target and server version compatibility

Q: Can a PVS environment be configured with PVS target version higher than the PVS server version? A: No, The PVS target version should be the same as the PVS server version Configuring PVS environment with PVS target version higher than the PVS server version may work however if there is an issu...