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Tips for deploying Nutanix Central on premise

  • February 21, 2026
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Daniel Martinez
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Hi,

I have recently deployed a pair of AHV clusters on a customer. Each cluster has its own Prism Central cause they are going to be part of a Metro availability environment with a witness VM on a third site.

Now the customer is asking me if he could have some kind of overview and managing of both clusters from a single dashboard.

I think that Nutanix Central could accomplish that request, however I’ve never deployed it and I have some questions.

Checking the documentation I see that you can deploy it onpremise by downloading it from each Prism Central marketplace. So I assume it will deploy a VM appliance on each cluster (similar to prism central) and I should have to config it.

Are there any specific tips that you could provide before deploying it?

By the way, both clusters have PC 7.5.0.5 and AHV 11, everything is up to date, so I assume there is no incompatibility with nutanix central.

Thanks in advance!

Best answer by JeroenTielen

Created a blogpost howto do this ;) 

 

https://www.jeroentielen.nl/deploying-nutanix-central-on-premises/

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JeroenTielen
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  • February 22, 2026

You only have to download and install it once. Just on the cluster where you want to run it. Then connect all prism centrals against it. 


JeroenTielen
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  • February 22, 2026

Daniel Martinez
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Thanks a lot for the guide! 

One question… At the moment of deploying the VM, is it realy necesary to have 44vCPU? I mean just for overview of a pair if Prism Centrals that is quite a lot.

In case the cluster is not plenty of CPU resources, can you decrease the vCPU of the Nutanix Central appliance after deploying it?


JeroenTielen
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  • February 22, 2026

Nope. That is what the requirements are. Sorry.