What is personal vDisk in Citrix XenDesktop?
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What is personal vDisk in Citrix XenDesktop?
Citrix XenDesktop with personal vDisk technology is a high-performance enterprise desktop virtualization solution that makes VDI accessible to workers who require personalized desktops, by using pooled-static virtual machines.
What is personal vDisk?
The personal vDisk feature retains the single image management of pooled and streamed desktops while allowing users to install applications and change their desktop settings.
What is the default storage size when creating a personal vDisk?
By default, this is 50/50 split. If less than 4 GB size is defined, an allocation of 2GB for applications and machine settings and 1GB for profile data is used.
How do I disable Citrix personal vDisk?
To resolve this issue, Citrix recommends that you remove the personal vDisk before upgrading:
- Select the appropriate copy of the vDisk installer from the XenApp/XenDesktop media.
- Remove the personal vDisk installation.
- Select Remove personal vDisk.
- Click Finish.
- The Reboot Requirement page appears.
How do you update master image for dedicated and pooled machine?
Instructions
- Modify the master Virtual Machine or new virtual machine with the required changes.
- Take a snapshot of the modified virtual machine.
- Start PowerShell on Delivery Controller (Controller).
- Run command Add-PSSnapIn citrix*.
- Run command Get-ProvScheme.
Can I remove Citrix indirect display adapter?
Right-click on Citrix Systems Inc. Display Mirror Driver and click Uninstall. Click OK to uninstall the device. Click Yes to restart.
How do I remove a director?
From the Windows feature for removing or changing programs: To remove a Controller, Studio, Director, License Server, or StoreFront, right-click Citrix Virtual Apps version or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version and select Uninstall. The installer launches.
How do I create a vDisk in PVS?
Open PVS Console. Choose the newly created vDisk, open File Properties and select Enable Active Directory machine account password management. Still in the PVS Console, choose the newly created target device, right-click and select Properties and change the Boot from option to vDisk.
How do you update master image for dedicated and pooled MCS catalog?
How do I change master image in Xendesktop 7?
Select a catalog and then select Update Machines in the Actions pane. On the Master Image page, select the host and the image you want to roll out. On the Rollout Strategy page, choose when the machines in the Machine Catalog will be updated with the new master image: on the next shutdown or immediately.
What does a Citrix indirect display adapter do?
Citrix Indirect Display (IDD) – This adapter is used in sessions where a GPU is detected but no Citrix supported vendor driver is found. It can be considered as “generic” GPU support.
How do I clean my Citrix Receiver?
Go to Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features > Select the Citrix Receiver or Workspace app and click uninstall….Instructions
- After you have downloaded the ReceiverCleanupUtility.
- Run the Citrix clean up utility.
How do I create a new vDisk?
In the Server used to create the vDisk menu, select the provisioning server that creates the vDisk. Type a file name for the vDisk. Optionally, type a description for this new vDisk in the description textbox. In the Size text box, scroll to select the appropriate size to allocate for this vDisk file.
