Expand vDisk for PVS 7.1 on Hyper-V

There are many article which talks about vDisk expansion on different version of PVS but couldn’t find one for PVS 7.1 using windows 2012R2. Here I am sharing what I have done. Download vhdtool.exe from here. After downloading the tool follow this command as shown below

Now open disk management on any machine and attach the vhd

Once disk is attached it will showup as expanded volume . Select the disk and then choose extend volume.

Select the entire size and then next

Detach the hard disk post expansion

PVS streamed Win2012R2 /Win7 and NIC fail over.

In this video I am trying to show how NIC speed varies for windows 2012R2 vs Win7. As you know , HyperV support PXE on legacy nic at the speed of 100MB. Streaming VM’s over 100MB would be really challenging .  Windows 2012R2 VM does fail over the network from legacy NIC to Synthetic NIC as shown over the video whereas Windows7 only use synthetic nic for VM traffic and streaming continue over legacy network. In this video, I tried copying file to PVS streamed  windows 7 and all the activity happening over synthetic NIC whereas streaming continue over legacy NIC.

PVS streamed machine showing error: Network_Boot_Duplicate_Address

PVS environment has been setup using following post . When windows 2012R2 targets where booted it throws error “NETWORK_BOOT_DUPLICATAE_ADDRESS”

Since we had two DHCP server, we thought this may be the reason why it is having duplicate IP issue. But found CTX132133 explain similar issue with PVS 6.1. Decided to try the work around mention in CTX.

This worked.

Reviewed by me: Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

I had been approached by Packt  Publishing to review the book  “Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0” . The book explain each and every feature of PVS 7.0 which is most exciting product from Citrix. Author Puthiyavan Udayakumar has done justice to the interesting product from Citrix .

 

About me mention in this box by publisher

So what all you are going to learn from the book :

• Install Citrix Provisioning Services
• Configure Citrix Provisioning Services
• Create and manage Vdisks
• Prepare a Master Target device
• Manage farms, stores, sites, and the Provisioning server
• Upgrade farms and Vdisks

You can download the book in various format including PDF and kindle

Post reading please do provide your review at Amazon.

Thanks for reading

DHCP failover scope : Please delete the scope from the relationship

I was trying to remove scope and it was throwing error “Scope is part of failover relationship . Please delete the scope from the relationship”

I tried removing from the scope but there were no option to do so.

If one has to remove the failover scope, it has to be done from IPV4 properties and Failover

After removing the relationship , I also have to do the same from secondary server as well. Post which I was able to remove the scope without any issue.