By It’s been a while since I haven’t upgraded my blog, and I’ve taken a step back to this amazing news coming from Omnissa and Nutanix about having Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV as a new opening category for my blog called Nutanix, for sure!
This is a great momentum to promote Omnissa in expanding its development to other hypervisor solutions to address secure, high-performance virtual desktops with the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) solution, giving the customer a way to choose and deploy Omnissa VDI in their on-premises datacenters, in private clouds, and across public cloud providers, while managing it all through a unified platform that provides consistency and control.
All documented and possible solution is documented here at Omnissa KB, explaining what’s possible and supported today to work with Nutanix as a Limited Availability (LA):
Limited availability in software development refers to an early, restricted release before General Availability (GA), where access is given to a select group for testing, feedback, and refining features before public launch.
Functionality available in Limited Availability as part of Horizon 8 2506:
- Deploy Horizon 8 infrastructure (Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, Edge Gateway) on Nutanix AHV
- Configure Nutanix Prism Central as a capacity provided for Horizon 8. This supports on-premises deployments and NC2 on AWS.
- Create a golden image virtual machine running on Nutanix AHV
- Create and manage automated desktop pools on Nutanix AHV
- Support for persistent and non-persistent VDI desktop pools. Windows 10 and Windows 11 guest OS vTPM support
- No RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) support at this moment
- Sysprep customization
- vGPU support (based on golden image configured with vGPU attached)
- Support for pool power policy
- Refresh functionality for non-persistent pools (uses delete/recreate VM workflow)
- Push Image functionality to update non-persistent pool VMs with latest image
- Horizon Console management of Compute Profiles (CPU/RAM/vTPM)
- Horizon Console management of VM power operations (reset, restart)
- Unified Access Gateway for Nutanix AHV
- Horizon Edge Gateway for Nutanix AHV (limited to support for Horizon SaaS license activation)
Requirements:
- Omnissa Horizon 2506 version
- The Horizon Pod must be using the new Omnissa ADLDS database partition naming, accordingly https://kb.omnissa.com/s/article/6000797
- Nutanix
- Prism Central (PC): 2024.3 or superior
- AOS: 7.0
- AHV: 10.0
Feel free to check those documents to understand better this new option and start testing it out on your lab!
GA date is about to be launched, so get started today to be ready to enjoy the ride in a few!
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