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Quickly create large files for performance testing
From your windows server, you can use the FSUTIL command. fsutil file createnew for example, to create a 50GB file named test.iso fsutil file createnew test.iso 50000000000
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How to measure Citrix Provisioning Server performance
To make Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), you must rely on block I/O cache. In this case, we will be using Windows 2008 R2 X64. When an endpoint logs into PVS, the read I/O for that device then points back to the vDisk hosted on the PVS server. Doing this, you need to make sure you have plenty […]
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Monitoring Citrix Provisioning Server PerfMon stats using Windows PowerShell
In particular, the most common performance counters we care to look at are: \Process(StreamProcess)\IO Data Operations/sec and \cache\copy read hits % IOPS in particular because watching Stream Process will tell us how many IOPS PVS is creating. Copy Read Hits (CRH) in particular because we need to make sure we are serving end-point IOPS directly […]
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Bulk add computers to active directory group using powershell
Needed to go through the environment and find all the computers per datacenter and add them to their respective security groups so they would get WSUS group policy applied to them: So I had to search for a list of computers using powershell, then add that very same list of computers to an active directory […]
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