Preface

Citrix^® Provisioning Services fulfills the need of virtual disk streaming over networks. The product allows virtual disks to be provisioned and reprovisioned in real time from a single shared disk image or from a dedicated disk. The product also aids to avoid the necessity to manage and patch discrete systems. Instead, all image management is through the master image, and this results in a reduction of power usage, system failure rates, and security risks.

Citrix^® Provisioning Services shrinks the total cost of ownership and improves both manageability and business agility, along with the cost over operational expenditure. The attractiveness of this particular product is that a single read-only image can be concurrently streamed to compound diskless targets, both physical and virtual.

Getting Started with Citrix^® Provisioning Services 7.0 will accompany a Citrix^® Provisioning Services administrator looking to understand Citrix^® Provisioning features, architecture, terminology used, installation and configuration, operating and managing farm, store, sites, views, and Citrix^® Provisioning Server.

With Getting Started with Citrix^® Provisioning Services 7.0, you will learn about the concepts and administration of the Citrix^® Provisioning Server.