June 2023
Jun 06
Connector Appliance supported on Nutanix AHV
Now Available
With this change, Citrix adds Nutanix AHV to the list of hypervisors that can host the Connector Appliance.
Jun 06
AWS On-Demand Provisioning
Releasing
With this feature, when creating a machine catalog, VMs are not provisioned at catalog creation time, but rather the first time VMs are powered on. For non-persistent catalogs, the OS disk is deleted when the VM power state is set to Off, and recreated when the VM is powered up. The AWS on-demand provisioning feature reduces your storage costs and provides faster catalog creation.
Jun 06
MCSIO support on AWS
In Development
This feature supports MCSIO for non-persistent VMs created on AWS. MCSIO dramatically improves VM IOPs performance by leveraging two stages of caching technology from MCS.
Jun 06
MCS support changing memory and disk cache size for MCSIO
In Development
This feature enables admins to change disk and memory cache size to facilitate finding the most optimized cache configuration and adopt changing business needs when changing VM configurations.
Jun 05
Ability to reset the OS disk of a persistent Citrix Hypervisor VM in an MCS created machine catalog
Releasing
With this feature, when you power off a persistent Citrix Hypervisor VM and put the VM in maintenance mode, you can request to reset the OS disk.
Jun 05
Enhanced EDT congestion control
In Preview
A new congestion control algorithm has been introduced to optimize EDT, allowing the protocol to achieve higher throughput and reduce latency for an enhanced user experience. Please refer to this blog post for more details.
Jun 05
Support to modify MCS provisioned machines on AWS
Releasing
`Set-ProvScheme` changes the provisioning scheme. However, it does not affect existing machines. Using a new PowerShell command `Request-ProvVMUpdate`, you can now apply the current provisioning scheme to an existing persistent or non-persistent machine or set of machines.
Jun 05
Support for using Azure Active Directory joined image to create machine catalog
Now Available
Using this feature, you can use Azure Active Directory joined image to create machine catalog.
Jun 05
MCS support for assigning drive letter for MCSIO WBC disk
Releasing
This feature enables you to assign a drive letter for MCSIO WBC disk.
Jun 05
Support for dynamic security group for Azure AD joined VM
Now Available
In Azure environments, Citrix now supports Azure AD dynamic security group for a machine catalog.