Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to redesign an existing XenApp and XenDesktop environment to use Machine Creation Services (MCS). During the design discussions, the locations for the MCS-provisioned thin clone machine disks are proposed as shown in the Exhibit.
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Which potential concern should the architect address with the customer before proceeding with this configuration? (Choose two.)
In a Machine Creation Services (MCS) environment, the configuration proposed involves the shared storage for master image, identity disk, and differencing disk. This setup will require substantial IOPS from the shared storage. During machine creation and updates, there will be significant read IOPS demand on the shared storage. Additionally, as temporary data is written to the shared storage, there will be a substantial need for write IOPS. It's essential for the architect to address these performance concerns regarding the read and write IOPS on the shared storage before proceeding with this configuration.
Would... C. It will require substantial write IOPS to the shared storage location as temporary data is written. E. It is limited to certain hypervisors. And with intellicache ( Only Citirx Hypervisor) will mitigate the read performance
C, E are correct. right on point. substantial write as it fulfills the identity and differencing disks in storage.
C&E is correct
It is a "Choose 2", so I believe it's B and E for reasons mentioned previously. Thin clone uses less storage than full clones, also master image, identity disk and differencing disk are all on shared storage, not on VM Hosts as indicated in option D.
In my opinion, the answers are: B, D and E. MCS supports NFS and Block level storage. Write IOPS can be reduced on the shared storage via a number of different methods, intellicache is one of them. Although MCS supports most common hypervisors, it is still dependent on vendor due to its hypervisor integration.