Provisioning Server: Adding servers to the farm

Provisioning Server

Provisioning Server: Adding servers to the farm

By Phil Lindsey ⋅ March 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Filed Under Citrix Provisioning Server

I’m setting up new Provisioning Servers in my lab. Here’s a step by step guide for adding a second Provisioning Server. <

Provisioning Server – W2K8-X64-PVS02 – Use Powershell to add the Provisioning Server Active Directory service account to the local administrators group and create the vDisk directory structure.

$user="lan/svc-pvs"
$group = [ADSI]("WinNT://"+$env:COMPUTERNAME+"/administrators,group")
$group.add("WinNT://$user,user")
mkdir D:\vDisk | ft Name -AutoSize
mkdir D:\vDisk\Production | ft Name -AutoSize
mkdir D:\vDisk\Development | ft Name -AutoSize
CACLS D:\vDisk /T /E /C /G lan\svc-pvs:F

Provisioning Server – W2K8-X64-PVS02 – Install Microsoft .Net 3.5 SP1. (You can do this with Powershell or Server Manager.)

Provisioning Server – W2K8-X64-PVS02 – Download the Provisioning Server media and silently install the software.

The process documented below will demonstrate creating a Provisioning Server configuration answer file and silently configuring the new Provisioning Server. THE SILENT CONFIGURATION WIZARD WILL CORRUPT THE BOOTSTRAP WHICH LEADS TO THE CONSOLE CRASHING WHEN “CONFIGURE BOOTSTRAP” IS USED.

If you’re not trying to automate your builds I would recommend using the GUI to configure your servers. The screenshots from the previous post can be referenced if you want to use the Configuration Wizard GUI.

Provisioning Server – W2K8-X64-PVS01 – Running the Configuration Wizard Silently – Logon the first Provisioning Server (W2K8-X64-PVS01) and create an answer file using “ConfigWizard.exe /s” (see screenshot).

The default configuration options should be correct so you can click next on most of the screens except for the “Farm Configuration” – select “Join existing farm” and “Store” – select “Production”.

Provisioning Server – Copy the ConfigWizard.ans file to the new Provisioning Server (W2K8-X64-PVS02).

Provisioning Server – W2K8-X64-PVS02 – Open the ConfigWizard.ans file on the new provisioning server and modify the “StreamNetworkAdapter” with the new Provisioning Server’s IP address. Save the file.

Provisioning Server – On the new Provisioning Server – Run “ConfigWizard.exe /a” with the path to the .ans file to configure the new Provisioning Server.