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...

Error: Cannot create BDM partition for device <device name> while using XenDesktop Setup Wizard

The XenDesktop Setup Wizard might fail when creating target VMs on VmWare environmentunder the following scenario: Same service account is used; which is able to create Vms in Citrix Studio via MCS but failing in PVS All permissions are provided as per article CTX214389 vSAN is encrypted The Vm i...

Cannot connect to vCenter from PVS Console using stronger SCHANNEL Protocols, such as TLS 1.2

When running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard or the Streamed VM Wizard, and connecting to a vCenter Server that has been configured to only accept connections using TLS 1.1 or higher, the PVS Console could present an error stating that the Connection was closed. The error shown will have a text simil...

XenDesktop Setup Wizard fails with error (UUID_INVALID)

When running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard XDSW you might receive the following error when selecting the PVS Accelerator Configuration. The error might also be shown when attempting to change the Accelerator Status of a Target Device or Enabling/Disabling the Accelerator setting on a Host Entry...

Error "cannot connect to the hypervisor at <ADDRESS> object reference not set to an instance of an object" when running the XDSW

When running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard, it can fail with the following error: "cannot connect to the hypervisor at object reference not set to an instance of an object" The string will contain the actual URL of the vCenter Server. This issue can appear when the DataCenter name on the VMWare sid...

PVS targets experience BSOD: IRQL Not Less or Equal on targets created using XDSW when booting for the first time

PVS Target devices created using Xendesktop Setup Wizard are running in toa blue screen of death issue. The error message displayed on the BSOD screen shows the following message: Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for yo...

XenDesktop Setup Wizard cannot add machines to an existing catalog

XenDesktop Setup Wizard fails to create new devices at the end of the wizard's process. Wizard has no issues connecting to VMWare VShere but fails to create VMs with error: CDFNETERROR,"XdSetupFinish: Clone for device XXXXX-003 exception: System.Exception: vmwware-wsnaprvmvc01 Duplicate template...

XenDesktop Setup Wizard fails on a Hyper-V Environment

The XenDesktop Setup Wizard might fail when creating Targets on a Hyper-V Environment under the following Scenarios: The vDisk is set to any kind of Write Cache that includes a Local Hard disk BDM Partition is selected as the Boot method for the Targets The XenDesktop Setup Wizard might present t...