box-the difference between Virtual desktop MCS, PVS and composer

First of all, the individual is standing in SI angle to talk about the difference, after all, the network has a lot of VMware and Citrix competing relative function parameters contrast.

The following explains the noun (friends who know don't shoot bricks and say I'm long-winded)

PVS (Provisioning Services): In the early version of Citrix (XenDesktop 3, XenDesktop 4), PVS is the core component of XenDesktop, Used to create Virtual disk vdisk (the so-called master disk) and to prepare virtual desktop mirroring, simply the way to publish a virtual desktop, when the virtual desktop boot, its boot vdisk on the mirror, similar to the previous diskless system principle.

MCS (Managed Computing Services): The term appearing in Citrix's recently released version (XENDESKTOP5) is actually my Citrix Product documentation at Citrix's website The library also did not search for information, and one of its functions is to provide a virtual desktop under the VDI architecture.

Composer:vmware View Composer officially explains the ability to provide advanced mirroring management and storage optimization in a VMware environment, publishing virtual desktops in linked clone mode.

Explanation to this, a little messy, or contrast, there is a comparison of the truth

Citrix's PVS is similar to the diskless workstation principle of traditional Internet cafes to publish desktops.

Citrix's MCs and VMware's composer are grouped into a category that creates virtual desktops by replacing traditional templates, but by creating those different files (variables, etc.), and publishing the desktop like an incremental backup.

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