Provisioning Services Logon Process Sequence

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:
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  1. Target request IP and port details from the PVS farm(After connecting to provisioning services in the boot screen)
  2. The details are provided by the PVS farm.
  3. 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)
  4. PVS farms picks up a least loaded PVS server and assigns the target to that server.
  5. Target request for I/O port from the PVS server assigned to it.
  6. PVS Server now grants the I/O port.
  7. Target Device request for booting using the vdisk assigned to it (as per target device properties under device collection).
  8. 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