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Changing the XenDesktop XenServer pool master memory configuration
By default, XenServers dom0 memory limit is set to 752M. Thus limiting the performance of dom0. Especially when publishing desktops within XenDesktop using Machine Creation Services. It is advisable to up this amount to the limit of 2940MB for each XenServer, that way if your pool master changes, you will have plenty of memory available. […]
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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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