1Y0-201 · Question #1
Scenario: A user's Desktop OS machine with Personal vDisk (PvD) is unresponsive. The user needs to access applications installed on the PvD urgently, due to an important deadline. How could a Citrix…
The correct answer is D. Run a PowerShell cmdlet to restore the user's PvD to a new virtual machine. When a Personal vDisk machine is unresponsive, the administrator must restore the PvD to a new VM using PowerShell to give the user immediate access to their installed applications.
Question
Scenario: A user's Desktop OS machine with Personal vDisk (PvD) is unresponsive. The user needs to access applications installed on the PvD urgently, due to an important deadline. How could a Citrix Administrator resolve this issue?
Options
- AUse Citrix Director to reset the PvD.
- BUse Citrix Studio to restore the user's initial settings.
- CRun the ctxpvd.exe command on the user's system.
- DRun a PowerShell cmdlet to restore the user's PvD to a new virtual machine.
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A4% (1)
- B11% (3)
- C4% (1)
- D81% (22)
Why each option
When a Personal vDisk machine is unresponsive, the administrator must restore the PvD to a new VM using PowerShell to give the user immediate access to their installed applications.
Citrix Director is a monitoring and help-desk tool that can reset sessions or profiles, but it does not provide a mechanism to restore or re-attach a PvD to a new virtual machine.
Citrix Studio manages catalog and delivery group configurations; it does not include a feature to restore a user's PvD or initial OS settings to an unresponsive machine.
ctxpvd.exe is the PvD driver service running inside the virtual machine; executing it is not possible or meaningful when the machine itself is unresponsive.
Citrix provides PowerShell cmdlets (such as those in the Citrix.XenDesktop.Admin module) specifically for PvD management, including restoring a PvD to a new virtual machine. Because the original Desktop OS machine is unresponsive, the PvD disk must be re-attached to a healthy VM rather than repaired in place. This allows the user to resume working with all their personally installed applications on a functional desktop immediately.
Concept tested: Restoring Personal vDisk using PowerShell cmdlets
Source: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-6/xad-pvd-wrapper/xad-pvd-manage.html
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.