Which is better MCS or PVS?

Posted on by Dominique Stacey

Which is better MCS or PVS?

MCS is suited for small deployments (or lab scenarios) and is simple to deploy. But overall, PVS is the more robust and scalable solution for enterprise environments. PVS requires more intensive planning, additional infrastructure, and more configuration to implement.

What is the difference between MCS and PVS in Citrix?

MCS takes a snapshot of a virtual machine, copies it to a storage location and clones are made that read this copy. PVS is network-based while MCS is a hypervisor-based but they both ultimately end up with virtual machines for users to establish sessions onto.

How does MCS work on Citrix?

Citrix MCS creates a snapshot of master the VM and it copies the full snapshot to the storage repository to serve as the master image (base disk). When provisioning multiple virtual desktops or servers, MCS includes two types of disks: a differencing disk and an identity disk for each virtual machine.

How do you convert pvs vDisk to MCS?

My steps will be:

  1. Create/adjust the master image.
  2. Create MCS machine catalog for testing.
  3. Add the (new) MCS machine catalog within the test delivery group and remove the (old) PVS machine catalog (mulitple machine catalogs can be added to a delivery group).
  4. Conduct testing – if testing is working fine proceed:

How do you make Citrix MCS?

Citrix MCS – On Prem

  1. You create a master template or gold template and make all the changes that you want to it.
  2. Once you are happy with the changes to the VM, go to your hypervisor console and take a snapshot of the VM.

What is DDC in Citrix?

The Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) is the core technology used to couple the XenDesktop components together. The XenDesktop technology has drawn from the Citrix XenApp technologies.

What is golden image in Citrix?

A Golden Image is a template for a virtual machine (VM), virtual desktop, server or hard disk drive. A Golden Image may also be referred to as a clone image, master image or base image. For this purpose, all you need to do is install the eG agent on the new Windows VM to be used as the golden image for PVS.

How do you reverse imaging?

There are several methods of reverse imaging, including the following:

  1. Boot a Target Device from the vDisk. Attach a new local disk to the Target Device.
  2. vDisks are VHD/VHDX files. Some hypervisors (e.g. Hyper-V, XenServer can only boot VHDs) can directly boot VHD/VHDX files.
  3. Windows 7 and newer can boot from VHD files.

How do I defrag pvs vDisk?

Instructions

  1. Launch the PVS Console.
  2. Right click on the vDisk and select Versions from the context menu.
  3. In the Versions Window click on the Merge button.
  4. In the Merge Window make sure you select Merged Base and set access to Test mode. Click Ok.

What is PVS in Citrix?

Citrix Provisioning Services (Citrix PVS) is a streaming technology that delivers software patches, updates, and other configuration data to multiple endpoints running virtual desktops through a shared desktop image.

What is catalog in Citrix?

Collections of physical or virtual machines are managed as a single entity called a machine catalog. All the machines in a catalog have the same type of operating system: server or desktop. A catalog containing Server OS machines can contain either Windows or Linux machines, not both.