Citrix Provisioning Servers gone offline

Under normal operation, PVS servers show up green in Provisioning Services Console.

Mine went orange and became unavailable, tried the following:

Tried making a change to the farm config like add a new collection. This returned a database error. 

On clicking more details, it clarified: the transaction logs had become full.

The details of the database can be found by right-clicking the farm and select properties. On the last tab the details of the dB and instance are listed.

This issue was resolved once the volume on which the database stores transaction logs on was cleared up, by running backups in our case, as the Edgesight, PVS and XenDesktop dB's all stored logs on the one volume.

Trouble booting XenApp 6 provisioned VMs

If your provisioned server VMs aren't booting up after, say, a reboot cycle.

Try restarting the Citrix PVS TFTP and Citrix PVS Stream services on all your provisioning servers.

Query farm commands

On one of your Citrix XenApp 6 servers:

>query farm /load

will tell you the loading of each server in the farm.
0          = 0% load
200      = 20% load
10,000 = 100% load
20,000 = License server unavailable
99,999 = no load evaluator set


>query farm /online

will indicate which servers are online and which is the Zone Data Collector (denoted by a Capital D)

>query farm /offline

will tell you which servers are offline (well duh!)


These can be abbreviated to qfarm