PVS

The Citrix PVS Target Device Driver is a SCSI Adapter Bully

July 13, 2024

Working on a Citrix upgrade project a few years ago I was continually getting a blue screen when a Citrix PVS image booted. The symptom was obvious during the boot process. It was as if there were two NICs or the image was trying to load twice. PVS write-cache was also incorrectly being redirected to […]

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Cold Starting and/or Hydrating Your Applications To Improve Their Startup Times

June 27, 2023

In the End User Computing (EUC) space we know that after the first time the application starts post reboot, the next time is faster. The first startup is referred to as a cold startup and all subsequent runs are warm startups. The first time the application starts, components of the application, such as the EXEs (executables) and […]

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Best Practice for the Windows Time (W32TIME) Service for RDSH and VDI workloads

May 16, 2019

When using image deployment mechanisms for RDSH and VDI workloads, such as Citrix PVS, Citrix MCS and VMware View Composer, it’s extremely important to reconfigure the Windows Time (w32time) Service to ensure that the LastBootUpTime is accurate. If it’s not accurate, it effects monitoring, the correlation of log data, event triggers, etc. The default Manual […]

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