Provisioning Services Logon Process Sequence
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Description
This squence occurs after the bootstrap file is downloaded.Here will explain the steps of negotiation happening in the background when a target device tries to seek a login PVS server
Instructions
Following Steps occur the the background between a PVS target device and a PVS Server communicate for serving the logon request:
- Target request IP and port details from the PVS farm(After connecting to provisioning services in the boot screen)
- The details are provided by the PVS farm.
- It seeks for a Login server to serve it's streaming request ( We get Login request timed out here if no PVS server is available to serve this request)
- PVS farms picks up a least loaded PVS server and assigns the target to that server.
- Target request for I/O port from the PVS server assigned to it.
- PVS Server now grants the I/O port.
- Target Device request for booting using the vdisk assigned to it (as per target device properties under device collection).
- PVS server accepts provides the vdisk and begins streaming.
Issue/Introduction
This article explains in details what happens when a targets tried to attempt the login sequence with the PVS servers
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