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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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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.
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A4% (1)
- B96% (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.
Built-in hosting templates supply default hardware profiles that may not match the specific memory and CPU values the administrator needs for this deployment.
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.
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.
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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