Citrix MCS No_Host_Available

NO_HOST_AVAILABLE when using Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS)

I’m currently working on a project where I’m migrating the customer’s users to a newly created Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) environment based on Windows 2019 combined with Nvidia GPUs. This environment is based on Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS). In the past, they decided to let their VMs run on local storage, which […]

Creating a Memory dump Citrix MCS/PVS and Hypervisor

When you need to debug some issues with your current deployment, you’re probably asked to create a memory dump. When you’re deployment is a traditional VM than that’s no issue, if you are using PVS than the memory dump is probably disabled because the PVS optimization disabled it or you used the Citrix optimizer which […]

Reset Windows Rearm count

rearm count

When working with Machine Creation Services we discovered that the Clients all have the same CMID. A different CMID is needed to activate using KMS services. We searched for a solution and everyone mentioned rearming the machine, but then we received the message that we can’t rearm. We then searched for a solution but everyone was pointing out […]