When a target device boots to a vDisk in standard mode/shared mode, regardless of the cache type, the data written to the Write Cache is deleted on boot so that when a target is rebooted or starts up it has a clean cache and contains nothing from the previous sessions. When the target device is booted in standard mode or shared mode, the write cache information is checked to determine the cache location. When the vDisk mode is private/maintenance mode, all data is written back to the vDisk file on the PVS Server. Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk.
Instead, it is written to a write cache file in one of the following locations: If data is written to the PVS server vDisk in a caching mode, the data is not written back to the base vDisk. The write cache includes data written by the target device. In PVS, the term “write cache” is used to describe all the cache modes. Write Cache in Provisioning Services Server This article provides information about write cache usage in a Citrix Provisioning, formerly Provisioning Services (PVS), Server.
