Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0
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Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0

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Disk streaming technology is advancing rapidly. Ardence (who were later acquired by Citrix) originally developed the disk streaming software now called Citrix Provisioning Services. Citrix Provisioning Services helps you stream a virtual disk across physical and virtual machines. It works at boot by using PXE to contact a TFTP server and pull down a small patron that registers the system. From there, it starts sending the individual blocks of virtual disk to the system that needs to boot via the network.

Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0 is a hands-on implementation guide that helps you to learn about the installation, configuration, management, and operation of Citrix Provisioning Services in a step-by-step manner. This will help you to take advantage of the real power behind Citrix Provisioning Services. The book gives you a good grounding in operating Citrix Provisioning Services with practical implementations, which are all fully backed up with code and illustrations.

his book will help you get familiar with virtualization and its implications, starting with characteristics of virtualization such as single image management, consolidation, centralized control, and on-demand streaming of virtual disks to Enterprise systems and to their customers.

In order to get a broader understanding of all the available features, you start with an overview of Citrix PVS before moving on to installation, configuration, and managing the system, allowing you to develop hands-on operational and administrative experience. You will also learn how to create a Vdisk, as well as how to manage farms, sites, stores, and the Provisioning server using Citrix Provisioning Services. If you want to take advantage of disk streaming using Citrix Provisioning Services, then this is the book for you.

With this book, you will learn everything you need to know about Citrix Provisioning Services from an administrator/engineer's standpoint.

Approach

This practical guide helps you to administer Citrix Provisioning Services. Each chapter is structured in way to help you easily understand the various features, with accompanying practical examples that help beginners to quickly understand the product.

Who this book is for

This book is a useful guide for an admin/engineer who is new to the Citrix virtualization solution and provisioning service, and who is looking to get a good grounding in Citrix PVS. It's assumed that you will have some understanding of the basics of virtualization already, but that's all you need to know!

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
9781782176701
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Intelligence
Index
Business

Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Instant Updates on New Packt Books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
The background of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
High-level logical flow of Citrix® Provisioning Services
Architecture of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Provisioning Service License server
Provisioning Service Database server
Provisioning Service Admin Console
Shared storage service
Active Directory Server
Network services
Citrix® Provisioning Server
Terminology
Citrix® Provisioning Service farms
Citrix® Provisioning Service stores
Citrix® Provisioning Service sites
Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk
Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk modes
Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk pools
Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk Update Management
Citrix® Provisioning Service write cache destination
System requirements
Summary
2. Installing and Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Installing Citrix® Provisioning Server using GUI
Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services using the command-line interface
Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services Console 7.0 using GUI
Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Server 7.0
Configuring Provisioning Services using the command-line interface
Summary
3. Managing Citrix® Provisioning Disk
Organizing a principal target device
Checking the readiness of the master target device's hard disk
The principal target device's BIOS configuration
Server network adapter BIOS configuration
Deploying the master target device application and operating system updates
Allocating a vDisk to the target device
Properties of the principal target device
Dealing with the bootstrap files and boot devices
Summary
4. Operating Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0
Managing and operating a farm
Operating sites
Managing and operating stores
Managing and operating target devices
Operation over target devices
Creating a new target device object in the Provisioning Service database
Setting the target device as the template for this collection
Copying and pasting target device properties
Booting target devices
Checking the target device's status via Console
Sending messages to target devices
Enabling/disabling a target device
Managing and operating the device collections
Device management operations
Creating a device collection
Importing a device collection
Deleting a device collection
Booting target devices within a collection
Managing views
Managing and operating the provisioning servers
Operation tasks in the Provisioning Service task
Copying and pasting server properties
Deleting a server
Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services on a server
Showing the server connections
Load balancing the target devices on a server
Checking for vDisk access updates
Manually configuring Provisioning Servers
Operating vDisks
Creating vDisks
Creating vDisk images
Summary
5. Upgrading Citrix® Provisioning Farm and vDisk
Upgrading the existing Provisioning Services farm
The Hyper-V method
Installing Hyper-V Integration Services (optional)
The Reverse Imaging method
Updating vDisks
Manual vDisk creation
Automatic vDisk creation
Managing update tasks
Merging of the vDisk from the existing disk
Promoting the update version
Troubleshooting reference articles
Summary
Index

Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

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