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Configuring XenDesktop 5.6 with Provisioning Services 6.1 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC

There have been a lot of amazing announcements this week, the most notable was the availability of XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services 6.1 which now both support System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (and RTM once announced). In addition, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which extends the SCVMM capabilities to support "Hyper-V 3" on codenamed Windows Server "8". With a little playing around, I was able to determine that both XenDesktop 5.6 and PVS 6.1 may require additional code changes to support SP1. For example, for PVS [...]

Provisioning Services Shared Volumes Using Read-Only Managed Stores

When discussing options for vDisk storage placement and provisioning services there are two primary options: Block-based attached storage (Locally attached, iSCSI, FC, FCoE) and network attached storage (CIFS or NFS). One of the best resources to understand the advantages of Block-Based attached storage and NTFS file caching is the Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services document. After understanding the concepts in this document any Citrix engineer would choose block-based over network storage any day of the week! If you’ve made the mistake I made this would result in local storage for each Provisioning Server in a site and manual [...]