
One NIC is for regular network traffic and the other for streaming traffic. I want each of my Windows 7 provisioned desktops to have 2 NICs. This is going to depend a lot on how you have your hardware setup. Now we get to the slightly harder part, configuration. Once done, click Server Installation on wizard home page > Install Server

After install, remove SA rights and just give these rights only: Have your DBA set the service account to SA temporarily for the install. You must be logged into the PVS server using a service with DBO rights or the install will fail. This will probably be different for your environment so make sure you thoroughly understand the reasoning behind each step and how it applies to your environment.

This guide will describe how I do things for my PVS environments. There are not a whole lot of step by step guides out there and PVS can be a real beast to wrap your head around if you are not familiar with it.

The purpose of this blog post is to get you familiar with how to implement it. There are many reasons to use or not use PVS for your VDI or XenApp environment and that’s a whole other discussion. Once a company has a XenDesktop or XenApp environment that is pretty mature, they often turn to Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) to help scale the environment.
