Mount the Citrix Provisioning Services ISO using Hyper-V management console.Ĭlick again onÂ Target Device Installation.Ĭlick onÂ Install to install the required components.Ĭlick onÂ Next to start the installation.Īccept the License Agreement and click onÂ Next.Įnter your customer information and click onÂ Next. So let’s start by installing the Citrix Provisioning Services components in my Windows 2012 R2 virtual machine. Sources tell me that the next version of Citix Provisioning Services will be able to work withÂ Gen 2Â (generation 2) virtual machines in Hyper-V.

Otherwise the virtual machine will not be able to boot using PVS. Make sure that the virtual machine configured in Hyper-V for Windows 2012 R2Â PVS target is setup asÂ Gen 1Â (generation 1) virtual machine, and that the network card is aÂ Legacy network adapter. Citrix Provisioning Services Boot Disk (blogÂ here).All servers and desktops are running as virtual machines.Windows 2012 R2Â ServerÂ with latest updates.Windows 2012 R2 server withÂ Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8 installed ().Configure aÂ Target Device to use said vDisk and boot from PVS.Create a Windows 2012 R2Â Target Device vDisk.For now letâ€™s focus on creating the Windows 2012 R2Â Target Device vDisk. I will then use this target device disk (vDisk) as a template (golden image) to create multiple target devices running from the same vDisk in another post using Citrix XenDesktop 7.8. In this blog I will show you how to create a Windows 2012 R2Â target device running from Citrix Provisioning Services. In the end it is all about managing resources and being high-available. Off course having just one Windows 2012 R2 Server is not ideal, but you get what I’m aiming at. And because the concept is Server Based Computing (SBC or Shared Desktop), you can provision multiple full-functional desktops using just one Windows 2012 R2 server. Using Windows 2012 R2 as a VDI platform, you can easily give like 90% of your workers a full-functional desktop or Workspace. In my recent blog here I showed you how to setup Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8. Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) is a great way for running your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

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