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For a Citrix VDA (Virtual Delivery Agent) to successfully register with the Delivery Controller, it must establish a secure communication channel which relies heavily on Kerberos authentication.

A common cause for registration failure on startup, particularly in new deployments or non-persistent environments, is that the Time is off on the machines. If the system clock of the virtual desktop drifts more than 5 minutes from the domain controller or the Delivery Controller, Kerberos ticket generation fails. This prevents the VDA from authenticating with the Broker Service, resulting in a "Unregistered" state in Citrix Studio. While Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements (Option A), failing to meet those usually prevents the OS from booting or installing entirely; if the OS boots but fails to register, time synchronization is the most probable infrastructure cause.

In Nutanix Prism Central, the reporting feature allows administrators to schedule and generate custom reports. To manage storage and database capacity, Prism Central enforces a retention limit on these generated report instances.

According to the Prism Central Guide, "By default, Prism Central retains 25 instances of each report."

In the scenario described:

The administrator had 22 reports.

Over the next week (7 days), 7 new reports were generated (22 + 7 = 29 total potential instances).

Because the total (29) exceeds the hard default limit of 25, the system automatically rotated out (deleted) the 4 oldest copies to maintain the count at 25. This explains why reports are missing despite the expectation of seeing 29.

Nutanix's Shadow Clones feature is used to create linked clones or snapshots of base VMs, which can improve VM provisioning time and storage efficiency by reducing the amount of duplicated data.

If an administrator disables Shadow Clones within a company's VDI environment, it is likely that deployment times would increase as the number of deployed desktops increases. This is because linked clones or snapshots would no longer be used, so each new desktop deployment would require creating a full copy of the base VM.

Nutanix Shadow Clones allow for distributed caching of a particular disk or VM data, which are in a ‘multi-reader’ scenario. This can help in scenarios such as VDI or private clone boot storms, where VMs on multiple nodes read from the same set of base disks12