As I wrote here on the blog a while ago, my home lab consists of a Lenovo workstation running a fantastic Nutanix CE 2.1, on which I’ve set up several dozen VMs.
As with commercial Nutanix installations, starting with CE 2.0 the Nutanix software packages can be upgraded directly through LCM.
Unlike in the past, the software that makes up CE is now essentially the same as in the commercial version, except for some CVM (AOS) components.
So you can go ahead and run the software Inventory:
When the inventory finishes, you can select the software packages to upgrade and proceed with the installation:
I selected AOS 6.10.1 and the latest AHV release available in the list, el8.nutanix.20230302.102001:
After a few dozen minutes of waiting, here’s the end result:
As you can see, my CE is now running on AOS 6.10.1.