Using Provisioning Services with multiple non routable streaming networks may result in target devices failing to fully boot. A simple example is described below, how customers may have multiple PVS servers added to each network.

Example single PVS server farm, the PVS server has three network adaptors.

• Management nic for SQL and AD access etc.
• Streaming NIC 1 on a non routable network, with ip address 192.168.10.1
• Streaming NIC 2 on a separate non routable network, with ip address 192.168.20.1

Networks 192.168.10.x and 192.168.20.x have no routing and are entirely isolated from other networks and from each other.

Behavior: PVS will sometimes direct target devices in network 192.168.10.x  to stream from NIC 192.168.20.1 which is on the non routable network, and vice versa.

It is recommended to reconfigure the PVS environment, ensuring that all target devices in the PVS farm can communicate with all streaming NICs on any PVS server which is hosting vdisks assigned to those target devices.

Problem Cause

This a misconfiguration of the network environment for hosting Citrix Provisioning. PVS server logic assumes all streaming NICs are equivalent and can be used for any target device for streaming. Multiple non routable streaming networks on a single PVS server will lead to this behaviour.