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1Y0-201 · Question #7

A Citrix Administrator is in the process of building new virtual machines using Machine Creation Services within a XenDesktop site. How could the administrator ensure that all new virtual machines…

The correct answer is B. Create a custom template in the hosting environment. Machine Creation Services uses a hosting-environment template to define hardware properties such as vCPU count and memory for every virtual machine it provisions.

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Question

A Citrix Administrator is in the process of building new virtual machines using Machine Creation Services within a XenDesktop site. How could the administrator ensure that all new virtual machines have the same individual settings for memory and CPU at the time the machines are built?

Options

  • AUse a built-in hosting template.
  • BCreate a custom template in the hosting environment.
  • CCreate a master target device in the hosting infrastructure.
  • DSet the master device as a template in Provisioning Services.

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  • A
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  • B
    96% (22)

Why each option

Machine Creation Services uses a hosting-environment template to define hardware properties such as vCPU count and memory for every virtual machine it provisions.

AUse a built-in hosting template.

Built-in hosting templates supply default hardware profiles that may not match the specific memory and CPU values the administrator needs for this deployment.

BCreate a custom template in the hosting environment.Correct

Creating a custom template directly in the hypervisor or hosting environment (for example, a VM template in vSphere or a Hyper-V template) captures specific CPU and memory allocations. When MCS provisions new machines from the master image, it references this template for hardware settings, guaranteeing uniform resource assignments across all created VMs.

CCreate a master target device in the hosting infrastructure.

A master target device is a Citrix Provisioning Services concept used to build vDisks and is unrelated to defining hardware settings for MCS-created machines.

DSet the master device as a template in Provisioning Services.

Setting a master device as a template in Provisioning Services is a PVS workflow for streaming-based deployments and does not apply to the MCS machine-build process.

Concept tested: MCS VM hardware configuration via hosting template

Source: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/install-configure/machine-catalogs-create.html

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#Machine Creation Services#hosting template#virtual machine configuration#MCS

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