Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the nature of the Provisioning Services technology and how to deploy it in our XenApp 7.6 implementation to facilitate administration and reduce storage footprints in IT organizations. PVS, if deployed correctly, can make your life as a system administrator or consultant a lot easier—think about the ability to test changes in your environment without disrupting the work of your users. PVS makes it possible to push out updates on the fly and store an OS in a single file that can reside on shared storage and be replicated to your DR site. This doesn't mean, however, that this technology should be deployed in every environment. Some customers with smaller IT infrastructures may not be able to allocate the extra resources needed to build and license the Provisioning Servers and would be better served by the built-in MCS component of XenApp. Detailed planning should be done in advance and decisions should be made on a case-by-case basis....