 So let's talk about Zen server, PV drivers, and some issues that some people have had around this topic. So what is a PV driver? So pair virtualization via QEMU via Zen server. And if you don't have drivers loaded, it's terribly slow. And the reason I'm bringing this up, because I've had people complain about performance issues and the problems they had in running Windows virtual machines, and citing this is why they should just be on VMware because VMware supported. And it's supported in Zen server as well. And I bring this up because, well, this is the basis by which you need to load the drivers and there's an easy way to do it with the XCPNG server. And if you have the paid license that you can do it with Citrix as well. Now the drivers from XCPNG are in beta, but you don't have to use the drivers from XCPNG in your Windows, because it's still Zen server at the base, the Citrix drivers work very well. So I'll leave links to all these articles here. In short, we're going to talk about is you just turn on this Windows update tool inside of Zen Orchestra. And then the signed Windows drivers that Citrix has signed will automatically load. It'll load if you're running this on Citrix Zen server, it'll load if you're running this on XCPNG. The only difference is if you have Citrix, it only loads if you had the licensed version of Citrix server with XCPNG, it loads without any extra licenses because it's all open source. Now the driver itself is not open source that's from Citrix. This is a driver that goes in Windows. But if you're worried about open source while you're running Windows, so don't rant about that. So in short, we're going to show you how to do this real quick. So I have my Windows server 2016 eval we have loaded and you have to turn this on while the VM is off. So you turn on the Windows update tool, it's a little tick slider here. And if you want to know how to do it from the command line inside of your Zen server, this is actually a walkthrough from Citrix. There is a variable you can set that says XV VM param set UUID and you can set it manually. And I bring this up because there's not a way to do it with the XCPNG, the Zen center software, the Windows tool, there's not a way to turn it on in there. It's not a revealed feature. I don't really say I didn't see it, but you can do it from the command line. And if you're like me and you run Zen Orchestra, you just check this box here. What does it look like and how does it actually work? Well, this is what it looks like when you have it installed. So it automatically from Windows updates goes in and puts in the ZenPV host and I believe under disk drive ZenPV disk and you get all the normal, you know, performance you expect of having drivers properly loaded and it works quite well. The performance and speed have been really happy out of this, but what about loading the Citrix agent? Well, I chose this VM. This is a Windows 10 VM. And I loaded the Citrix agent, which is working fine in my XCPNG server. So this one actually doesn't just have that box checked. It also I loaded the guest agent that way. I have the full features of the guest agent, which is the talking back and forth with the server. So it works. It allows me to do things like send a soft shutdown. So actually, let me pull up this particular VM. Go ahead and just close these windows. So I'll move these things off to the sides. You can see them both at once. And this is screen connect. This is our remote utility for how I'm managing it, but I could just have easily been already peed in. So here's that Windows 10 with the Citrix agent loaded and we're just going to head and hit stop. And by the way, it's reporting everything memory and network activity. So it's doing the proper communication. So we're going to head and send us stop. And hey, look, it shut down and we'll look at the console itself. It goes through the shutdown process like it's supposed to. It's actually really fast. It's already done it. So yeah, that's, that's it. It's that simple. So that's what the Citrix. Now, what about if you don't feel like loading the Citrix agent? Well, this is a Windows Server 2016 right here. And this is the other VM I had pulled up was this one. And they, like I said, both of them have the windows update turned on. But this one, I didn't load any other tools. I only let the windows update do it. So from the load of the server directly, I had turned this on. So we turned this on when we built this template and then we loaded the disk, the ISO for Windows Server 2016, and then we loaded it. So right from the bat, it is installed. And we'll be here and pull up the device manager. There's the ZenPV disk driver, Zen storage controller. And of course I didn't show another one, but that shows the ZenPV network device, but let's pull up services. You'll notice in here there is no Citrix services running at all because it does not load those Citrix services. I've only got the PV drivers load this and that's enough for how I want to use the system. Generally speaking, we don't load anything extra. And the nice thing is because the drivers are signed, Windows loads them. There's not anything special you have to do to get the PV drivers loaded in here. The performance is good. So if you don't want to use the beta drivers that are here, which I'll leave a link to, there are beta drivers available from the XTP NG Client Tools. You can just load it via the Windows Update. I will also leave a link to this if you want to get the Citrix Zen server without having to download Citrix and get their CD. And they've got it all behind a, not a paywall, but you have to log in and subscribe. They have this document here and it says PVUpdatesVMDCitrixLatest.tsp. This file will always have the latest version of it. And you actually just, you get the file, it's weird. You get the file look inside of it and it has a link in there to where the Citrix download is. And it has a version number after it. So you'd have to double check and look. But you can, if you want the Citrix agent, you could find it by doing this here if you have a need for the actual agent part of it itself. And then you can get that file. So that's about it. Pretty straightforward to get these installed. There's really not much else to it. Just turn on the Windows update and it will get the latest drivers signed and installed inside of Windows and they work. So if you don't even need the agent and I believe he's don't need the agent for the shutdown, it works. If I send a shutdown, oh, look, the server realizes it's shutting down. So once again, no Citrix agent or anything installed. So it works fine. This seemed like it said to be a point of confusion of people waiting before they jumped on it, before these betas were, before these drivers are on a beta, just turn on Windows updates and orchestra and have fun using it. All right, thanks. Thanks for watching. If you like this video, go ahead and click the thumbs up. Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details, what you like and didn't like as well, because we love hearing the feedback. Or if you just want to say thanks, leave a comment. If you want to be notified of new videos as they come out, go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications. Hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube. Anyways, if you want to contract us for consulting services, you go ahead and hit laurancesystems.com and you can reach out to us for all the projects that we can do and help you. 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