Need Prism Central OVA for ESXi – No Support Portal Access (Community Lab)

Have you checked out the Nutanix Community Edition?
I am not sure what you get access to once you are granted the community edition role, it may be that it will give you access to perform the download. Only one way to find out I guess.

https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/download-community-edition-38417

Once you get CE up and running, you are able to install the PC via Prism Element

Here is a guide to try and install CE on an Exsi Cluster: https://www.jeroentielen.nl/installing-nutanix-community-edition-ce-on-vmware-esxi-vsphere/

Thank you for your reply.

I have already installed Nutanix Community Edition (CE), and the cluster is up and running CVM (Prism Element). However, I'm unable to install Prism Central (PC) from Prism Element.

Could you please advise if Prism Central is supported on Nutanix CE, or if there is a supported method to deploy and connect Prism Central for testing?

I tried downloading the Prism Central OVA from the Prism Central Downloads page, but it requires my Nutanix Support Portal account to be activated before I can access the download.

At the moment, I don't have an activated Support Portal account. Is there any way to obtain the Prism Central OVA for a Community Edition (CE) lab or evaluation environment? Alternatively, is there another supported method to deploy Prism Central for testing purposes?

Please see the attached screenshot for reference. It shows that Prism Central is not registered in my environment.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

Hey Parthi,

Great question.

I sent you a DM so I can take a closer look at your user profile in My.Nutanix.com.   

Thanks,

-ss 🤓

Thank you for your reply.

I have already installed Nutanix Community Edition (CE), and the cluster is up and running CVM (Prism Element). However, I'm unable to install Prism Central (PC) from Prism Element.

Could you please advise if Prism Central is supported on Nutanix CE, or if there is a supported method to deploy and connect Prism Central for testing?

I tried downloading the Prism Central OVA from the Prism Central Downloads page, but it requires my Nutanix Support Portal account to be activated before I can access the download.

At the moment, I don't have an activated Support Portal account. Is there any way to obtain the Prism Central OVA for a Community Edition (CE) lab or evaluation environment? Alternatively, is there another supported method to deploy Prism Central for testing purposes?

Please see the attached screenshot for reference. It shows that Prism Central is not registered in my environment.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

That is strange. You should have a button there to install Prism Central. You dont need to have an active support account because you can deploy Prism Central traight from Prism Element. 

I created a video on how to do this: