XenDesktop 5.6 Personal vDisk Feature Overview

Citrix Xendesktop 5.6 introduces Personal Vdisk Feature

1.)    Persistent personalization of user profile and applications.

2.)    Eventhough Base image is changed the user personalization will remain the same.

3.)    Citrix PVD:  Here inbetween Base image & VMs there will be persistent layer (PVD)  that contains all users changes like ( wallpapers, start menu settings, application installations, etc..)

4.)    Citrix PVD attached to VMs  have the capability to persist their changes across base image changes. For Eg: IF administrator changes Service pack or patches to base image Personal Vdisk  SW will make the users changes are integrated to new base image.

1.)    Here while creating a VM pool we should mention whether PVD enabled or not

2.)    Initially when the user login PVD will be empty and go on user made some changes these changes will be integrated on PVD.

3.)    If admin decide to upgrade Firefox 10 he will do the changes in base image but there may be chance of conflict if user already installs Firefox 9. By default admin changes will take effect

4.)    If user install the same SW as admin the PVD detects it as a duplicate copy and removes it from user personalization. So admin installed SW will exists. Also note that these rules are customizable  and changeable.

5.)    PVD are created as part of VM setup process. We can mention PVD storage in MCS wizard or PVS wizard.