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...

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...

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 Targets run chkdsk at boot after the vDisk has been modified

Every time a PVS Target Device boots from a vDisk the OS detects problems with the C: drive and automatically runs chkdsk at boot time. The following events might be observed in the Windows Event Log on the Target Device: Event Log: System Source: Ntfs Event ID: 55 Text: The file system structure...

Problems activating PVS Target Devices configured for KMS licensing

Your PVS Target Devices are configured for KMS licensing, and after activating the first PVS Target device, activation of other PVS Target Devices devices fail. When you look more closely at the Target Devices you find that the devices all share the same CMID. This means that when building the...

VMWare Tools Auto-Update Renders PVS Target Devices Unresponsive

The PVS target device turn unresponsive a few seconds after booting up correctly. The behavior is only observed after devices are rebooted. The device will be marked as down on the PVS console and there will be no retries registered as the device will not reconnect to PVS...