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Machine Creation Services Storage RAM and Disk Cache

Citrix Machine Creation Services as of XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 provides the ability to write to memory with overflow to disk just like what is available with PVS using RAM w/ overflow to HDD. This greatly decreases write I/O so you don’t have to rely as much on the underlying storage or worry about hitting a storage bottlenecks as you scale the desktop environment. Keep Reading

Using MCS to create Worker VMs

Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a single image management solution from Citrix that allows you to easily create multiple virtual machines based off a gold Virtual Machine by performing thin or full linked clone copies of a master virtual image.

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