Citrix: Unattended install of PVS Target Device resulting in vDisk is not available

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Kees Baggerman·Senior Technical Director at Nutanix – Former Citrix CTP – NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor – 15+ years in EUC

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I was trying to install the Citrix PVS Target Device unattended. I made a job in RES Automation Manager with a Unattended Installation Package:

PVS_Device_x64.exe /S /v /qn

But when I tried to use the Wizard the first phase would go without problems but after the reboot I would get an error message saying:

vDisk is not available. Please check your network PXE boot Configuration and restart imaging wizard

So I tried fiddling around with the binding of the network interfaces but even when we configured the target and the PVS server with just one nic we got the same error message. After an extensive search we found that the unattended install did work but because we where using a service (local system) the unattended install wouldn’t work like expected as we found the following article. The software would install without problems and would report an Ok but the driver installation would fail:

I tried to use different options to make the unattended install work but this would work. So I found the earlier blog also mentioned a solution:

The problem is solved as soon as the PVS Target software is installed using the GUI, instead of via command line.

For XenApp 6.5 this is solved in a different way: install XenApp with the commandline parameter /install:XenApp,PVDeviceFeature (http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp65-install/ps-install-command-line.html).

[Update]

Thanks to Barry Schiffer‘s comment I was able to install the software unattended, I just copied the CFsDep2.cat, cfsdep2.inf and the CFsDep2.sys to C:\Windows\System32\drivers and used the command line: “PVS_Device_x64.exe /S /v /qn” to install the software.

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Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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Kees Baggerman

Senior Technical Director at Nutanix - Former Citrix CTP - NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor - 15+ years in EUC

Kees Baggerman is Senior Technical Director — Performance & Solutions Engineering R&D at Nutanix, where he leads a global team responsible for defining how enterprise applications are delivered on the Nutanix platform. A former Citrix Technology Professional and NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor, he has spent 15+ years driving EUC strategy and technical direction across architecture, product, and customer success. He has been writing here since 2011 — sharing what he learns at the intersection of platform engineering and enterprise IT.

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