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Can we install Nutanix Central Prism for Nutanix Community edition ?

  • February 27, 2026
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Hi Team,

I have deployed Nutanix Community edition successfully on one of the Dell server and looking for deploying the Nutanix Central Prism for management purpose. Can you please let me know if the Prism supports community edition as well? if it is supported please share the prism installation files.

 

Thanks 

Ganesh

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swischer
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  • February 28, 2026

Hi,

are you planning to use the Prism Central on the CE installation to manage your production environment or is it completely Test or lab use case?

I am asking this because it is very unknown that you can deploy a node with the standard Nutanix AOS / AHV without the need of licenses when you just host Nutanix VMs like Prism Central.

(You just get a license warning most customers have than 1-5 Edge licenses and put there AD, Monitoring or other Management VMs on that cluster as well)

https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-platform/software-options#edge

(Scroll a bit down at find the following information)


If you are talking about just lab and test environment you can download the Prism Central package from the Nutanix Portal. It is the same as for Non CE environments and will just need to check your current AOS version against the supported Prism Central version.

Identify the suitable version here:

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/compatibility-interoperability-matrix/pc
(Select the first the PC version you want to use than you select to show compatible AOS versions)

Download section in the portal:

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=prism