
Welcome to Xi Frame Platform Documentation¶
Welcome to the Xi Frame Platform documentation site. Our goal is to help you find what you need, fast. Understanding how we’ve organized this site and how we refer to our products will ensure you get to the information you need as quickly as possible. You can use the table of contents on our landing page here, or navigate through our documentation using the sidebar.
If you haven’t signed up for a Xi Frame account yet, you can refer to our sign up guide for more information.
Attention
If you are looking for documentation on the classic Frame platform, you can find it by clicking here.
Important
If you are a Nutanix Frame on AHV customer and currently using CCA 2.x, please see the updated documentation for an important announcement regarding the required update to CCA 3.0 prior to October 31, 2020.
What is Xi Frame?¶

Frame is a secure cloud platform that lets enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) deliver applications, desktops, and software-defined workspaces to users. Users only require a connected device with a modern web browser. There are no clients, downloads, or plugins to install. It is a public cloud-native platform that has recently been adapted for use with private cloud (AHV) contexts. It is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider-agnostic. Organizations can run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or their on-premises Nutanix AHV cluster through a single management console. Using Xi Frame, organizations can automatically provision and deprovision capacity worldwide and across IaaS providers to adjust to fluctuations in end-user demand.
You can read more about Frame in the Nutanix product solution brief.
End User Guides
Refer to this section if you are accessing applications that have been provided to you by your administrator or if this is your first experience using Frame as an administrator. Anyone using Frame at all should read through the guides in this section to understand how to work with and run applications streamed from Frame in a browser.
Subscription Management
The Subscription Management section provides details on how to sign up for a trial and manage your Frame account subscription.
Administrator Guides
- Infrastructure
- Account Management
- Platform Hierarchy
- Manage Organizations
- Account Types
- Account Administration
- Create Accounts
- Operating Systems and Applications
- Application Licensing
- Onboarding and Publishing
- Launchpad Management
- Add a Launchpad
- Launchpad Appearance
- Quick Launch
- Manage Capacity
- Clone a Sandbox/Utility Server
- Notification Center
- Nutanix Support Authorization
- Audit and Session Trail
- Analytics
- Status
- Data and Storage
- Terminate an Entity
- Network Management
- Security Management
- User Management
- Session Conduct
If you are administering an account that you wish to share with others in your organization, then you will still need to read through the “End User Guides” section to understand the basics of a Frame account. Proceed to this section when you are ready to learn how to onboard and publish apps to share with teams, manage your environment, and more.
Support
Check out our changelog section to view recent updates to the Frame Platform and read about our Early Access Features.
Developer Guides
For developers using the Frame Platform, this separate set of documentation covers Frame APIs that you can use to create custom web workflows.
Knowledge Base
Can’t find what you’re looking for? We encourage you to explore our Knowledge Base for information pertaining to more specific Frame scenarios.