PVS Boot Device Management creation of UEFI BDM disks.

PVS Boot Device Management wizard creation of UEFI BDM disks. In PVS 2402 and newer, the BDM wizard only shows options related to UEFI BDM creation, as BIOS has been deprecated, and BIOS management interfaces have been removed. This means BDM wizard will look for a locally attached drive with...

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:...

Publishing an App Layering image to PVS with Offload Compositing may fail

When publishing an App Layering image to PVS using Offload Composting, it may fail...

All Hosts missing from PVS Desktop Wizard

When trying to create a catalog using the PVS Desktop Wizard, the host list may be empty even though the Delivery Controller you are connecting had Hosts configured. You may also not see the option to add hosts in the PVS console...

PVS targets running on Nutanix have a BSOD after boot

The customer created two different vdisks from two different master target devices on Nutanix. Both master target devices appeared to have identical hardware configuration in Nutanix management console. One vdisk failed to boot against PVS targets created via CVAD Setup Wizard, while the other...

PVS 2407 BIOS target devices crash on PVS reconnect

PVS 2407 BIOS based Target Devices crash on PVS reconnect. Customers would typically encounter a requirement for a PVS reconnect when performing load balancing operations, for example when patching and rebooting PVS servers. PVS reconnect would also occur during normal operation if sufficient PVS...

Citrix PVS rebalancing leaves target devices unresponsive with CheckPoint agent installed

Rebalancing PVS targets devices ends up with the target devices in an unresponsive frozen state. The only method to recover target devices is to force restart the target devices on the hypervisor. Customer validated all PVS servers are configured as PVS login servers. Target devices fail to...

PVS Configuration Wizard fails when connecting to the database

The customer has PVS servers running in Azure. In the PVS Configuration Wizard, in the "Database Server" dialogue when specifying Authentication "Active Directory Password ", and proceeding with specifying a domain username and password results in an error...

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...

CVAD wizard fails with device name # is invalid when PVS-Accelerator is enabled

We are using XenServer 8.0 and PVS Accelerator the CVAD wizard will fail to create new devices. When an AOT trace is captured and analyzed you will see the following errors in the logs: PVSDllHypervisorPlatformsAO,,0,,5,Information,"XenAPI failure, error description:...

With the PVS console installed, PowerShell cmdlets targeting On-Prem DDCs prompt for cloud login

On a server with the PVS console installed, executing CVAD cmdlets targeting on-prem DDCs e.g. Get-BrokerSite -AdminAddress will encounter popups prompting for Citrix Cloud sign-on...

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...

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...

How to change from NIC adapter e1000 to VMXNET3 for PVS streamed VMs

This article explains how to change from NIC adapter e1000 to VMXNET3 for PVS streamed VMs...

PVS Console Crashes while using XenDesktop Setup Wizard

After entering the Credentials to get the list of templates from the Hypervisor, the following error appears: "Microsoft Management Console has stopped working" Note : The issue does not occur with XenServer as Host Connections to XenServer do not allow the port number in the address...

PVS SOAP Service Crashes After Running the Auto Update

Provisioning Services Simple Object Access Protocol service crashes after running the Auto Update. The Auto Update feature in Provisioning Services PVS allows a master target to receive an update and roll it out to the target devices. The completion is signaled to the Windows Application log by a...

How to Export Target Devices into a .CSV File

This article details how to export Target Devices from a Provisioning Services PVS database in a formatted Comma Separated Values CSV file. Requirements SQL Server Management Studio or bcp.exe, both of which are components of a full SQL Server or SQL Server Express install...

Timeout Error 4002 in Provisioning Server Console after Clicking "Show Connected Devices"

The following symptoms occur on Provisioning Services PVS Servers when there are multiple streaming NICs assigned to the PVS Server. Example An environment having five streaming NICs had the following symptoms: When Show Connected Devices was clicked in the PVS console, the following symptoms mig...

Vdisk shows “No Server” for size in the PVS Console

When viewing a vdisk in the PVS Console the size will show as "No Server". The following error also appears when using XenDesktop Setup Wizard: A required PVS server in the selected site is offline or there is no server assigned to a required store...

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...