Citrix Simplifies Virtual Desktop Management with Support for Nutanix Prism Central on Nutanix Cloud Platform

May 07, 2025 at 08:00 AM EDT

Nutanix AHV Hypervisor integration offers customers enterprise-grade scalability, streamlined virtual desktop management and reduced costs

Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, Inc., today announced the general availability and support for multi-cluster environments hosted on the Prism Central solution on Nutanix Cloud Platform powered by the AHV hypervisor from Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing. Citrix also announced NetScaler VPX support for Nutanix AHV on Nutanix Cloud Platform. The combination of Citrix^Ⓡ and Nutanix solutions offers customers enhanced resiliency and brings enterprise-grade scalability to customers looking to broaden their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and secure application delivery environments.

The Citrix native integration with Nutanix Prism Central on AHV offers a more flexible and comprehensive enterprise-level platform for delivering Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ across a variety of hybrid multicloud environments, reducing single-vendor lock-in.

“Citrix support for Nutanix Prism Central improves the user experience across customers’ virtual desktop environments, improving productivity through greater agility, scalability and efficiency while the NetScaler support on AHV provides a high performing ADC & security solution,” said Abhilash Verma, Chief Product Officer at Citrix. “This centralized approach simplifies operations, automates workflows and ensures consistent policy enforcement to save time, reduce operational costs and secure the work.”

Key benefits of integrating Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix^Ⓡ Desktops as a Service with Nutanix Prism Central on AHV include:

Centralized Management: Simplified management of Nutanix AHV multi-clusters and scaled images, enhancing scalability and efficiency
Hybrid and Multicloud Integration: Ability to extend Citrix deployment to Nutanix hybrid multicloud environments and seamlessly integrate across different cloud platforms, including Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure and AWS
Native Integration and Compatibility: Easy migration and backward compatibility simplify operations and ensure smooth transitions within existing infrastructure
Scaled Image Management: Enables cross-cluster master image sharing via AHV versioned templates, improving resource utilization
Hypervisor Flexibility: Ability to deliver desktops from any infrastructure, whether on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid environments

"Today's hybrid work environment and evolving cybersecurity threats demand robust, modern digital workspaces and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)," said Thomas Cornely, SVP Product Management at Nutanix. "With Citrix native support for Nutanix Cloud Platform powered by AHV Hypervisor, customers can deploy VDI and NetScaler VPX in their on-premises data center or across public cloud providers at any scale —and manage it all through a unified platform that provides consistency, security and control. The Citrix and Nutanix partnership offers more choice and greater operational simplicity."

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Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, provides a secure app and desktop delivery platform that companies of all sizes can use to enable secure, flexible work. With Citrix, employees can work where and how they prefer, and IT can be confident their information and devices remain safe. Click here to learn more about Citrix solutions and the value they can provide.

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