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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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'...

How to check PVS target device write cache size remotely

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Provisioning Server 7.9 -- PVS Target Devices drop off network after login

Having logged into a PVS Target Device we see the Target Device disconnect from PVS Console. The Target Device then becomes unresponsive to pings and the machine hangs and sits in an unresponsive state...