Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Nutanix virtualization environments

September 7, 2025

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Follow this guidance when using Nutanix Acropolis to provide virtual machines in your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ deployment. The setup process includes the following tasks:

Install and register the Nutanix plug-in in your Citrix Virtual Apps™ and Desktops environment.
Create a connection to the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor.
Create a machine catalog that uses a snapshot of a master image you created on the Nutanix hypervisor.

For more information, see the Nutanix Acropolis MCS plug-in Installation Guide, available at the Nutanix Support Portal.

Install and register the Nutanix plug-in

Complete the following procedure to install and register the Nutanix plug-in on all your Delivery Controllers. Use Citrix Studio to create a connection to Nutanix. Then, create a machine catalog that uses a snapshot of a master image you created in the Nutanix environment.

Tip:

We recommend that you stop and then restart the Citrix Host Service, the Citrix Broker Service, and the Machine Creation Services™ when you install or update the Nutanix plug-in.

For information about installing the Nutanix plug-in, see the Nutanix Documentation site.

Where to go next

Install core components
Install VDAs
Create a site
For creating and managing a connection in Nutanix environments, see Connection to Nutanix

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Nutanix virtualization environments

September 7, 2025

Contributed by:

C S

September 7, 2025

Contributed by:

C S

Nutanix virtualization environments

Install and register the Nutanix plug-in

Where to go next

More information

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