You’ll need a Nutanix cluster running AHV with AOS 5.10 or newer. You’ll also need to install Prism Central. Starting from 5.11, you’ll be able to start the process of connecting your cluster to Frame directly from the Prism Central user interface.

No. Prism Central is a hard technical requirement. You’ll need a Nutanix cluster running AHV with AOS 5.10 or newer with Prism Central.

During the process of connecting the cluster to the Frame service, Frame will automatically deploy two VMs called Frame Cloud Connector Appliances (CCA). These VMs require outbound secure WebSocket (wss/443) connectivity to the Frame control plane that runs in the public cloud. Additionally, each VDI VM requires outbound https/443 connectivity to our control plane (those VDI VMs do not have to be directly connected to the internet).

Yes. In order to support users from outside their local corporate network, an optional component called the Frame Streaming Gateway Appliance (SGA) needs to be configured on the cluster. When deployed in a DMZ, the SGA allows secure access to Frame desktops from outside of a corporate network.

Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 (EA). Linux support (Ubuntu, CentOS) will be added in the second half of 2019.

There are no current plans to support Windows 7 as the desktop (workload) OS.

Yes. Before you connect your Nutanix cluster to Frame, you should prepare a Frame Sandbox template (gold master image) by installing the Frame Agent into your existing Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or Windows Server 2019 image. Other versions of Windows operating systems are not supported at this time. Preparing a Frame Sandbox template takes about 5 minutes and you can create and use multiple Sandbox templates on Frame.

Resources needed to run a CCA are minimal. A Frame CCA virtual machine with 2 vCPUs and 4GB RAM can serve up to 1,000 concurrent users. For larger deployments, we support both scale up and scale out.

While we don’t support NVIDIA vGPUs with Frame on Nutanix (AHV) at launch (May 8), support for this is planned for the summer 2019.

Until the release of Prism 5.11, there's a simple manual process to download the Cloud Connector and start the configuration wizard. All components required for Frame on AHV will be available in a secure location at https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/frame.

Frame workloads are comparable to VMware Horizon workloads using the Blast protocol. Use the sizer tool (sizer.nutanix.com) to size your deployment for VMware Horizon and use it to generate your Frame on AHV BOM.