A Citrix Engineer is deploying a large, multi-site XenDesktop environment where storage I/O is limited. What should the engineer select for image management when creating machine catalogs in this…

Linked Clones (used with VMware View) still generate substantial storage I/O because each clone has its own delta disk that must be read from and written to shared storage.

Provisioning Services streams a vDisk image over the network to target devices, meaning VMs do not read the OS disk from shared storage at runtime. This streaming approach dramatically reduces storage I/O, making it the optimal choice for large multi-site environments where storage I/O is a constraint.

Machine Creation Services creates full or thin-clone VMs on shared storage, so each VM generates individual storage I/O during boot and runtime, which does not alleviate I/O limitations.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is an OS deployment tool used for physical or virtual machine provisioning, not an image management or desktop delivery technology in a XenDesktop environment.