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Moving Away from VMware, Toward Proxmox? Why Citrix PVS Is Now Your Best Bet.

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Since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, we’ve been seeing the same discussion in many companies: Licensing costs have skyrocketed, product and partner policies have become unpredictable—and the search for alternatives is in full swing. In more and more projects, one name keeps coming up: Proxmox VE. Open source, from Austria, technically mature with clustering, ZFS, and Ceph, and […]

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Secure Boot 2026: Why It Hits Provisioning Environments Harder

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Anyone who uses Citrix Provisioning is familiar with the division of labor: The tool creates the vDisk—but it’s up to the customer to ensure the environment around it is set up properly. And that’s exactly where pitfalls lurk that not every administrator is aware of. The latest one is called Secure Boot, and it has an expiration date. The 2011 Secure Boot certificates are expiring; Microsoft is replacing them

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Local Volumes on the PVS Server: The Technically Superior Option — and How PVS Forge Makes It Feasible

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One of the most significant architectural decisions when setting up a Citrix provisioning environment is where to store the vDisks: on a central SMB share on the network—or locally on the PVS servers themselves. In practice, many customers opt for the network share because, at first glance, it seems simpler and more cost-effective. Technically, in the vast majority of cases, this is the

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PVS Forge Roadmap 2026–2029

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Vom Werkzeug zur VDI-Lifecycle-Plattform – schrittweise validiert, ohne Big-Bang. Die Trial-Version ist heute. Was PVS Forge schon kann, hast du im Trial-Artikel gelesen – eigener Imager, Multi-NIC-Stabilität, sicheres Multi-Server-Sync, kontextsensible Diagnostik, Inventory-Vergleich, vDisk KI-Analyse, Custom Post- und Pre-Sealing Scripts. Solide Basis für den Citrix-Alltag. Aber das ist erst der Anfang. PVS Forge entwickelt sich Schritt

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Citrix PVS Optimization — Do I still need it?

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Today, the VDAs run as virtual instances on the hypervisor, generously equipped with vRAM, and Windows itself has become significantly less resource-intensive than the Windows 7 of back then. So, do I even need all this optimization drama anymore? The short answer: Not most of it. But there is one thing—and that’s non-negotiable. The one optimization that

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The most important rule with non-persistent images

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When introducing new admins to PVS or MCS, there’s one rule that suddenly makes everything click—and ensures you’ll never make a certain mistake again. The rule is incredibly simple: When a non-persistent VDI system starts up, absolutely nothing is allowed to update automatically in the background—no matter what software it is

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