A company has non-persistent workloads provisioned with Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS). The administrator needs to utilize these workloads on their Nutanix environment. Moreover, the administrator would like to deploy many VMs in the future. In addition to converting the base images to Nutanix AHV, what should the administrator provision to accomplish this task?

With Citrix Machine Creation Services on Nutanix AHV, every pool of non-persistent VMs is built from a single master (base) image held in a Machine Catalog. After converting the master image to an AHV‐compatible format, the next required step is to create a new Machine Catalog in Citrix Studio that references that converted image; the catalog then automates bulk VM deployment on the Nutanix cluster.

A – Catalogs reference a single master image, not individually converted VMs. B – MCS does not use “cloned images”; it uses a catalog built from one master image. C – Cloned images are unnecessary; only one converted master image is needed for the catalog.

1. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2203 LTSR, “Create a machine catalog on Nutanix AHV”, §Steps 1-4 (docs.citrix.com)

2. Nutanix & Citrix, “MCS for AHV Best Practices”, p. 6-7, 2022 (nutanix.com)