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PVS Reverse Image with VMware vCenter Converter

This post shows you how to perform reverse imaging of a vDisk to update either the PVS Target Device software, VMware Tools or something else that may break your PVS stream! We will be using a mixture of VMware vCenter Converter and Windows 2012 R2 to mount the VHD. This post will also (not something I was expecting it to) go over diagnosing the VHD (vDisk) if it becomes corrupt or the PVS image has a System Reserved partition. Keep Reading

Citrix PVS Boot Device Manager

Using Citrix NetScaler you can load balance TFTP requests to deliver the bootstrap file to PVS Target VMs. You can provide PVS boot information from an ISO generated by Boot Device Manager. You can also use PXE built right in to PVS or use DHCP via options 66/67.

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Citrix PVS Synthetic NIC streaming with Hyper-V

As of August 2015, Hyper-V machines come in the form of Generation 1 and Generation 2 (Hyper-V shipped with Windows Server 2012 R2). Generation 2 brings some advantages over Generation 1 such as standard (synthetic) NIC PXE booting capabilities, UEFI firmware support and booting from a SCSI attached VHD. These are some things a Generation 1 VM cannot do.

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