Citrix DaaS™

Connection to Nutanix cloud and partner solutions

Create and manage connections and resources describes the wizards that create a connection. The following information covers details specific to Nutanix cloud and partner solutions.

Nutanix AHV Prism Central

Citrix DaaS™ supports Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in the following cloud hypervisors for Citrix-managed Nutanix AHV Prism Central plug-in.

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure

Note:

Connect to NC2 on Azure and AWS

Connecting to a Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) on Azure or AWS requires access to a deployed Prism Central instance and credentials with the Prism Admin role.

You can create a host connection using:

For the complete information on connection, see Connection to Nutanix AHV Prism Central

Nutanix Prism Element

Citrix DaaS supports Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) in the following cloud hypervisor for the Nutanix Prism Element plug-in.

  • AWS

Connect to Nutanix Prism

After you create a Nutanix cluster, connect to Nutanix Prism. To connect to Nutanix Prism:

  1. Create a bastion VM in the 10.0.129.0/24 subnet.
  2. RDP into the bastion VM, go to the URL of the Prism Element you copied in the previous section.
  3. Log in using the default credentials: admin:nutanix/4u. Remember to change the password.

Create a VM on the Nutanix Cluster

After connecting to Nutanix Prism, create VMs on the Nutanix cluster.

If the VM needs Internet access

  1. Go to the AWS console.
  2. Create a new subnet 10.0.130.0/24 in the same VPC as the one created by Nutanix CFS.
  3. Add a route to the route table of this subnet to direct all none local traffic to the NAT gateway above.
  4. RDP into the bastion VM, go to the URL of the Prism Element you copied in the previous section and login.
  5. Add a new network. Go to Settings>Network Configuration>Create Subnet. Use the same subnet 10.0.130.0/24 used in AWS.
  6. Create all the VMs (AD, CC, VDA, and so on) in that new subnet.

If the VM does not need Internet access

  1. RDP into the bastion VM, go to the URL of the Prism Element you copied in the previous section and login.
  2. Add a new network. Go to Settings>Network Configuration>Create Subnet. Use the subnet 10.0.129.0/24.
  3. Create all the VMs (AD, CC, VDA, and so on) in that subnet.

Tip:

Make sure that the time and timezone information in the VMs are set up correctly. This is especially true for AD.

Create host connection

  1. From Studio, select Hosting in the left pane.
  2. Click Add Connection and Resources.
  3. On the Connection screen, select Create a new Connection, and in the Connection address, enter https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9440.
  4. Follow the UI to complete the wizard.

Note:

All connector VMs must have the Nutanix plug-in installed for the Nutanix option to be available in Citrix Studio, even if the plug-ins are not used in the Nutanix zone.

Where to go next

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Connection to Nutanix cloud and partner solutions