PVS BIOS based target devices are slow to boot

PVS BIOS based target devices were slow to boot, with following observations: BIOS based target devices often taking tens of minutes to boot successfully, occasionally target devices may fail to boot. The network conditions in standard production network were non optimal for PVS boot performance...

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...

BIOS Based Provisioning Services Target Devices Boot Slow Within VMware ESX

BIOS based Provisioned Target Devices boot slow through single IO. Background This symptom appears random. It may occur on a single vm boot or many, for example: five out of ten vm's may boot as expected and the remaining five may boot anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes later. After boot when the Targ...

PVS Targets experience slow boot

Scenario 1 : After PVS software is upgraded ​ Provisioning Services Target Devices, that are using a BOOT.ISO to boot, experience an unusually slow boot time. The Targets can take anywhere from five to twenty minutes to boot. After the Target Device finally boots and it reaches the Windows Login...

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...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : lxc (SAT Patch Number 9084)

The container framework LXC has been updated to fix various bugs and a security issue : - The sshd template allowed privilege escalation on the host. CVE-2013-6441 - SLES container time not aligned with host time. bnc839653 - SLES container boot takes ages. bnc839663 - lxc mounts /dev/pts with...