How to create hosting connection for PVS provisioned machines
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Article ID: CTX549310
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Description
To be able to create / add VDA or Target machines to the PVS catalog in Studio
Instructions
If the target devices are created using Streamed setup wizard in the Provisioning server (console) then follow the below steps to create / add machines.
1. Create a new hosting connection in the Studio console
2. Choose "Other tools" as PVS does not need any storage or network options to be chosen.

3. The new hosting connection would like this:

4. Now, create a new catalog by choosing Provisioning bulletin
5. Add or Connect to the PVS server > choose the device collection and continue to Finish.
Issue/Introduction
PVS provisioned machines (Streamed setup wizard) does not need to have any resources or NIC added in the hosting connection under CVAD Studio, as it would have already been created and have references of the NIC & Storage from PVS console.
Additional Information
If you see similar failure while adding a machine to the existing PVS provisioned catalog:

While running hosting connection test, the report might show successful but there could be error:
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