Simplified Steps for Reverse Imaging PVS vDisk to Citrix Hypervisor VM

In order to accomplish some upgrades, you need to boot to the “hard drive” instead of the network. Some of the cases where booting to the hard drive are required: Uninstall PVS agent to upgrade Uninstall the Network Adapter to replace or upgrade Uninstall the Citrix Hypervisor tools to upgrade...

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...

Citrix Provisioning Services - Machine Creation Fails While Running The PVS CVAD Setup Wizard

The PVS CVAD Setup Wizard fails to create new virtual machines when running on a VMware Hypervisor. vCenter displays an error when the CVAD Setup Wizard fails to complete its task similar to the following: Unable to find device or file /Failed to clone a VM, error: Invalid configuration for devic...

Vdisks Are Not Deleted From VDisk Store after Being Deleted From PVS Console

After doing a merge, deleting vdisk versions on PVS console does not delete them from vdisk store, no errors are seen on PVS console. After deleting the versions, if we check store using File Explorer, we still see the vdisk versions present...

Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 : xe-toolstack-restart causes the PVS VMs to go into PowerState Unknown.

PVS VMs may showPowerState Unknown inCitrix Studio when the toolstack is restarted on the XenServer Hypervisor hosting the VMs. Currently logged in sessions will be unaffected however any new user trying to log may encounter an error as the site is unable to determine if any VMs are powered on an...

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...

Unable to add new PVS devices to Citrix Cloud with the setup wizard

While using the Setup Wizard to add new PVS target devices to Machine Catalogs in Citrix Cloud the operations fails with the error "Cannot connect to the Citrix Virtual Desktops Controller at : Citrix Virtual Desktops FullAdmin or MachineAdmin permission required."...

Citrix PVS: Target Devices giving error message "login request timed out " after Power Outage

After an interruption in service, some target devices are giving an error "login request timed out"...

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...

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...

PVS targets do not reconnect during HA failover

PVS targets do not reconnect during HA failover This was narrowed down to only occuring when target devices vdisks have installedPalo Alto terminal services agent...

Recommendations to Prevent PVS Write Cache from filling Up Too Fast

This article provides some recommendations to prevent the PVS Write Cache to fill up too fast. PVS Write Cache on RAM with OverFlow to HD improves the machines performance and it is the most recommended one. However, if the the HD dedicated to store Write Cache dumped from cache on RAM, this will...

CVE-2019-19869

An issue was discovered in B&R Industrial Automation APROL before R4.2 V7.08. PVs could be changed unencrypted by using the IosHttp service and the JSON interface...

CVE-2019-19869

An issue was discovered in B&R Industrial Automation APROL before R4.2 V7.08. PVs could be changed unencrypted by using the IosHttp service and the JSON interface...

PVS Accelerator - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Who Should Install This Update? This PVS Accelerator update is for customers who use the PVS Accelerator provided with Citrix Hypervisor 8.2. It constitutes the following deliverable: File Name| CitrixHypervisor-8.2.0-pvsaccelerator.iso ---|--- Description| This file updates the PVS Accelerator...

Citrix App Layering 4.x: PVS Connector (BootPrivate)

Introduction When publishing an image to PVS the PVS Connector allows for running a PowerShell script after an image is uploaded to the PVS Store and added as a vDisk. This sample script is intended to show Citrix customers how this scripting can be used to increase administrative productivity...

Citrix App Layering 4.x: PVS Connector Script to Convert VHD to VHDX

Introduction When publishing an image to PVS the Citrix App Layering PVS Connector allows for running a PowerShell script after an image in uploaded to the PVS Store and Added as a vDisk. This sample script is intended to show Citrix customers how this scripting can be used to increase...

Citrix App Layering 4.x: PVS Image Management

PVS Image Management Utility Some customers that integrate with PVS have asked for a mechanism to reduce possible errors when deploying new versions of vDisks. In PVS there are a few ways to modify the vDisk assigned to PVS targets. You can edit the properties of a target and select a vDisk from...

Collecting smaller Server-side Wireshark traces on PVS

PVS Wireshark traces can get very large and could use up a lot of resources. Here is a method that can be used to reduce the size of the traces and the impact on the PVS server. With the smaller trace file and lower impact, the trace can run longer and the resulting files are easier to handle...

PVS Bootstrap configuration missing after updating to 1912 LTSR or 2203 CUs

Error - There must be at least 1 and at most 4 logon servers in the list Bootstrap configuration missing post update to 1912 .CU X / 2203 .CU x...