Working on creating a new PVS gold image and have a simple question

[Robert Peck]

Will someone please explain the difference between these two options?

They both seem to be the same thing to me.  Isn't a vDisk an image file and isn't 'this device's boot hard disk' the same (or at least potentially the same) as 'this device's booted disk'.  

Seems like a simple question but not being easy to Google.

 

 

[Simon Graham]

I agree it's not very clear, but the difference is that "Create an image file" creates a VHD/VHDX file on the machine running the imaging wizard but does NOT upload to the store or actually create a vDisk from the image. This allows you to create an image on one machine then copy it to a PVS store and create a vDisk from it by importing the VHD.

 

Create a VDisk actually creates the image VHD/VHDX in the PVS store and registers it as a vDisk that can be used for streaming.

 

Simon

[Robert Peck]

Thank you Simon!