How to Mount and Unmount a vDisk Version from the Command Line Interface

This article describes how to mount or unmount a vDisk version from the Command Line Interface. Background CVhdMount utility is used to mount and unmount a vDisk version...

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...

Setting vDisk Boot Menu as a Default Option

This article describes how to enable the first menu option as the default boot choice without prompting when vDisk boot menu appears. Background A Provisioning Services vDisk boot menu appears when the user is starting a provisioned Virtual Machine, but the user wants the Virtual Machine to start...

How to Add a Managed vDisk to the vDisks Node Under vDisk Update Management

This article explains how to add a managed vDisk to the vDisks node under vDisk Update Management. Note: This article is part 2 of the three articles on how to manage vDisk for automatic updates. 1. CTX137757 –How to Create a Designated Update Virtual Machine and Add a Host Connection to vDisk...

PVS | StreamService cannot access vDisks after reboot

Intermittent problems with the StreamService of the PVS servers. Infrequently, when the PVS server boots, the StreamService is unable to access the vDisks. The event logs show the error message "Login failed error code: 2 for device : Server : vDisk file access permission denied". Two short-term...

Unable to delete versions of vdisks after creating a new merged base

Unable to delete previous versions of a vdisk after merging to a new base. No Target devices were using those versions but Delete was greyed out...

Citrix Provisioning - Converting An Existing vDisk From BIOS To UEFI

Converting an existing BIOS vDisk into UEFI vDisk for future PVS Target Device support...

error when importing new vdisk AN unexpected MAPI Error Occured

When trying to import vdisks into the PVS console, you may received an error. This occurs when it should be populating the list of disks available to import. The message is "An unexpected MAPI error occurred. Details: Index was outside the bounds of the array"...

Unable to delete vDisks old versions on PVS 1912 LTSR

After merging versions of vDisk, unable to delete the old versions that were not in use anymore. The Delete option was grayed out. Following article: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX215264 did not help...

Hide "Virtual Disk status" icon from System tray on the endpoints

Disable the vDisk status icon from being displayed within the system tray on the endpoints after launching ICA sessions against PVS provisioned VDAs...

PVS target BSOD on CVhdMp.sys

The VMWare based PVS target boots from the vdisk to message "Attempting to set IP address on Boot NIC..." and 60 seconds later BSODs. The vdisk will boot successfully on the master target device, but not on other devices...

Fail to delete vdisk from console "vDisk Properties Were lost"

The files of vdisk, pvp and lok has been removed from store. then delete vdisk from pvs console failed with error "vDisk Properties Were lost"...

PVS - Imaging Wizard fails when creating Vdisk. Error after restart 'Imaging wizard did not restart'

When attempting to create a vDisk, the Imaging Wizard gets as far as requiring a reboot, but after the restart returns the error 'Imaging wizard did not restart'...

PVS server lost the connection to vDisk after storage failover.

vDisks are located in NAS storage which is created as failover group. After storage failover occurs, PVS server loses the connection to the vDisks and does not automatically recover it. Target devices freeze during that time since the vDisk I/O to NAS storage stops...

Target device cannot access VDisk and boot, Event ID 11 seen on Provisioning server

Some or all target devices cannot access the VDisk at boot - the device will get a boot file but be unable to go further. On the PVS servers: Event id 11 from StreamProcess.exe is seen with the error detail:Detected one or more hung threads...

Vdisk locks are not clearing after shutting down a target from the PVS console running in Azure

PVS on Azure - When shutting down a target from the PVS console or the Azure portal vdisk locks are not releasing properly...

Low PVS boot throughput

A customer observed that PVS target device boot statistics, viewed in status tray tool, showed low throughput and a long boot time on existing target devices. Testing a new vdisk, minimal install with just PVS target device software and not domain joined, showed much quicker boot time and higher...

A System Reserved partition is visible in a vDisk when it is created using the Imaging Wizard.

Using the Imaging Wizard a new vDisk is created. A drive letter is assigned to the System Reserved partition and it is visible in the new vDisk. It is expected behavior by design. The System Reserved partition should be invisible to users. Before publishing the vDisk to target devices, the drive...

More data flow occupies by PVS server after copy/paste vdisk in use on NAS storage

Since customer need to execute scheduled backup tasks and vdisk update tasks,administrator may copy vdisk, which is in-using for data streaming from PVS server. Sometimes, data flow to NAS storage will increase even vDisk copy operation is finished. As the result, end user will experience pool...

Server communication timeout error while accessing the vdisk pool after upgrade to 1912 CU5

'Server communication timeout' error while accessing the vdisk pool node in the Citrix Provisioning PVS console after upgrade to 1912 CU5' There were no issues with the other nodes in the PVS Console...