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Citrix Provisioning Services PVS

Name: Citrix Provisioning Services PVS
Rating: 3.7 (139 reviews)

Improve your XenApp and XenDesktop image management and performance with Provisioning Services.

Created byFabrice Chrzanowski, Himal Malith

Last updated 8/2020

English

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What you'll learn

Provisioning Services product overview
Installing and configuring Provisioning Services
Using the Provisioning Services Console
Managing sites
Managing stores
Managing Provisioning Servers
Managing target devices
Managing vDisks
Managing device collections
Network components
Deploying virtual desktops to VMs using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard

Course content

9 sections • 18 lectures • 2h 43m total length

Why to use this fantastic product7:56
Citrix provisioning services is a software streaming technology that delivers updates to multiple virtual desktops through a shared disk image, reducing storage costs and simplifying centralized VM management.

Let's cover the prerequisite before installing PVS9:20
Explore the prerequisites for installing PVS by explaining how PBS streams a single read-only disk image to a network-booted target, with bootstrap server, vdisk, and licensing considerations.
Follow me and we will install PVS16:33
Install and configure Citrix provisioning services, build a master PVS, create a farm and a local store, and bootstrap targets with TFTP while integrating with a hypervisor management system.
One more thing missing the PVS console3:45
Install and launch the PVS console, connect to your farm, and explore sites, devices, collections, and disk stores to configure the PBS environment.

We will now install Citrix VDA on our Windows 10 Master6:24
Install Citrix VDA on the Windows 10 master, create a collection for PVS, build a master image, and configure store on shared storage to recreate the catalog.
Here the magic of PVS installation of the PVS Target9:05
Install the PVS target on the master, verify communication with the delivery controller, and run the imaging wizard to configure target devices while checking for third-party drivers and antivirus.
Let's now start to convert our disk to a vdisk19:59
Create and configure a vdisk in citrix provisioning services, manage the master disk, adjust mac addresses, and boot the master from the network via tftp bootstrapping.
I have recorded the issue of the Vdisk preparation3:59
Explore diagnosing a vdisk preparation issue in Citrix provisioning services, follow the VM imaging process, address driver considerations, and reflect on a prior setup problem encountered during imaging.
And to finish we will configure the boot options. And the collection7:24
Explore boot options in Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), including pixie vs BDM, ISO boot, and managing target devices with device collections and the setup wizard.

We will need a template without ANY DISK Magic5:15
Learn to create a template in Citrix Provisioning Services PVS from a virtual machine, configuring CPU, memory, disk, network, and converting it into a template for streaming and deployment.
Citrix hello. We will create the catalog do deploy our new VDI with No disk8:17
Create a Citrix PVS catalog to deploy a new VDI with no disk, configure templates and network boot, then build a delivery group and test VM provisioning.

Let's see all the WIndows 10 VMS with NO DISK are created13:48
Discover how Citrix Provisioning Services boots Windows 10 VMs with no disk, orchestrates via broker and catalog, and uses power management to start or stop VMs.
Now the final. We will open a citrix session and run our Virtual Desktop4:45
experience a non-persistent virtual desktop managed by citrix provisioning services (pvs) and PBS, including vm start-up, delivery group power management, and disk provisioning in a hands-on lab.
Ready to try. Show me that you are now a PVS friend10:26
Learn practical steps to set up a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) farm, add a second PVS server, enable TFTP load balancing, and ensure storage and database redundancy in a lab.

Requirements

Good knowlege on Network
Knowledge on Citrix
Knowledge on Windows

Description

Hello Citrix Lovers.
This is the only course available on PVS.

I'n playing with Citrix since 15 years. And each tome I made a demo on PVS, people were all impressed and asked me to install a demo server for them in their network. Citrix PVS is ahead of all current technology in disk management and maintenance. So follow me on this course. You will be impressed

You will Learn to install and configure a Provisioning Services farm according to leading practices.

In this course, you will learn about the architecture, communication, and processes that make up Provisioning Services to be successful with deploying and managing a farm.

Manage and integrate vDisks and target devices with XenApp and XenDesktop for easy rollback, upgrades, and performance of Virtual Delivery Agent machines. At the end of this course you will be able to install, configure and manage the Provisioning Services solution.

And of course find my 2 courses followed by more then 2000 users.

Citrix Xenapp and Xendesktop
Netscaler 13

What will your learn

Advanced Provisioning with Provisioning Services

Getting started with Provisioning Services
Provisioning Services Architecture

Provisioning Services Infrastructure

The PVS server role
The Farm database
The vDisk Store

Streaming the vDisk

Introduction to vDisks
Machine preparation
Streaming vDisks
Boot methods

Target Devices

Introduction to target devices
Data I/O
Handling persistent and non-persistent data

Integrating Provisioning Services with XenApp and XenDesktop

XenDesktop Setup Wizard
Device Collections
Published Apps and Desktops
Using Provisioning Services with XenApp and XenDesktop

Enjoy and send me a mail if you need advice, help or just speak with me.
Fabrice Learn different (fluctuationit(dot)com)

Who this course is for:

Enginner Citrix
Storage Admins

Citrix Provisioning Services PVS

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 8min

WHAT IS CITRIX PVS1 lecture • 16min

INSTALLING PVS3 lectures • 30min

THE VDISK1 lecture • 6min

PREPARING THE MASTER AND IMAGING PROCESS5 lectures • 47min

PVS CACHE1 lecture • 8min

END OF THE LAB1 lecture • 7min

INTEGRATION WITH CITRIX XENDESKTOP ROCK AND ROLL2 lectures • 14min

THE RESULT MAGIC3 lectures • 29min

Requirements

Description

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