The next time the utility is run, it will synchronize the store files and, after adding any new vDisks, it will check every vDisk on the store and remove any that have no associated file in the store. The first is to use the Citrix Provisioning console on the Master server to delete a vDisk. There are two ways now that you can remove vDisks. However, the utility did not remove vDisk entries from the console/database for secondary sites and farms. The scripts used the robocopy/MIR directive, which keeps folders exactly in-sync. Now to be fair to myself, the original version of the utility would remove vDisks that were deleted on the Master server when it replicated the store. Now, the vDisk Replicator Utility has add, change, and delete capabilities. The reason I am saying that the utility is finally finished is that, with release 3.5, I’m happy to announce I have added deleting/removing vDisks. Some of the new versions were to add features requested by customers.

Lots of those updates were to fix bugs found when the script was used by customers with different environments. The utility has been updated many times in the last year. This utility will save administrators a significant amount of time, while enhancing their users’ perceptions of the overall Citrix experience by eliminating issues caused by vDisks being out of sync. The scripts behind the utility can be run on a schedule to keep PVS stores in-sync between PVS Servers in the same site, different sites, or even different farms. The vDisk Replicator Utility provides automation to help manage PVS replication using a DevOps methodology. PVS gives Citrix customers a high degree of flexibility and operational agility while minimizing storage costs. Citrix Provisioning (PVS) is popular because it has many benefits for efficiently managing a large number of non-persistent Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops systems. NetScaler Application Delivery ManagementĬitrix Synergy is over, and I finally have time to write this blog - the third post I have written about the vDisk Replicator Utility (see post 1 and post 2) that I created to replicate vDisks.NetScaler App Delivery and Security Service.

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