Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0电子书

Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

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Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

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1. Introduction to Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

The background of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

High-level logical flow of Citrix® Provisioning Services

Architecture of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

Provisioning Service License server

Provisioning Service Database server

Provisioning Service Admin Console

Shared storage service

Active Directory Server

Network services

Citrix® Provisioning Server

Terminology

Citrix® Provisioning Service farms

Citrix® Provisioning Service stores

Citrix® Provisioning Service sites

Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk

Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk modes

Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk pools

Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk Update Management

Citrix® Provisioning Service write cache destination

System requirements

Summary

2. Installing and Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

Installing Citrix® Provisioning Server using GUI

Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services using the command-line interface

Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services Console 7.0 using GUI

Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Server 7.0

Configuring Provisioning Services using the command-line interface

Summary

3. Managing Citrix® Provisioning Disk

Organizing a principal target device

Checking the readiness of the master target device's hard disk

The principal target device's BIOS configuration

Server network adapter BIOS configuration

Deploying the master target device application and operating system updates

Allocating a vDisk to the target device

Properties of the principal target device

Dealing with the bootstrap files and boot devices

Summary

4. Operating Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0

Managing and operating a farm

Operating sites

Managing and operating stores

Managing and operating target devices

Operation over target devices

Creating a new target device object in the Provisioning Service database

Setting the target device as the template for this collection

Copying and pasting target device properties

Booting target devices

Checking the target device's status via Console

Sending messages to target devices

Enabling/disabling a target device

Managing and operating the device collections

Device management operations

Creating a device collection

Importing a device collection

Deleting a device collection

Booting target devices within a collection

Managing views

Managing and operating the provisioning servers

Operation tasks in the Provisioning Service task

Copying and pasting server properties

Deleting a server

Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services on a server

Showing the server connections

Load balancing the target devices on a server

Checking for vDisk access updates

Manually configuring Provisioning Servers

Operating vDisks

Creating vDisks

Creating vDisk images

Summary

5. Upgrading Citrix® Provisioning Farm and vDisk

Upgrading the existing Provisioning Services farm

The Hyper-V method

Installing Hyper-V Integration Services (optional)

The Reverse Imaging method

Updating vDisks

Manual vDisk creation

Automatic vDisk creation

Managing update tasks

Merging of the vDisk from the existing disk

Promoting the update version

Troubleshooting reference articles

Summary

Index