Archive for August, 2009
Citrix Provisioning Server licensing
As I had a little conversation about Citrix Provisioning Services/Server (PVS) licensing with @xenappblog and I just wanted to give a quick overview about this topic.
There are two kinds of Provisioning Server licenses: Desktop and DataCenter licenses.
Desktop licenses are used to stream desktop operating systems like Windows XP, Vista, 7 and even a few Linux distributions.
DataCenter licenses are used to stream server operating systems like Windows 2003, 2008 and also even a few Linux distributions like Suse or Redhat.
As Provisioning Server is licensed per device you have to buy as much licenses as you like to stream operating systems to them. If you like to stream for example Windows XP to 20 clients you have to buy 20 Provisioning Server for Desktop licenses. The same goes for the DataCenter licenses.
In most cases you’re not buying PVS licenses itself. Instead you’re using a PVS license which is bundled to a Citrix product like XenDesktop, XenApp oder XenServer.
There are serveral products from Citrix where the Provisioning Server is included.
