Scenario: CGE decided to virtualize its server workloads and provide a virtual solution to all of its end users. CGE is looking for an image management process that is scalable, but would like to…

Provisioning Services (PVS) is uniquely designed to centralize a single master operating system image, known as a vDisk, which is then streamed on demand to numerous target devices (virtual or physical). This centralization ensures that all target devices boot from an identical, consistent image, greatly simplifying image updates and overall management across a large-scale deployment.

While PVS allows multiple VMs to share a single vDisk, which reduces the storage footprint *per VM*, it doesn't necessarily reduce the overall storage footprint of the master image itself, and requires dedicated storage for the vDisk store and PVS server, so this is not its primary benefit.

PVS relies heavily on network streaming to deliver the OS image to each target device during boot-up and for read operations, which can actually increase network traffic compared to solutions that deploy local disks.

PVS requires dedicated infrastructure components, including PVS servers, a SQL database, and specific network services like DHCP and TFTP, which generally *increase* infrastructure server requirements rather than reduce them compared to methods like MCS.