diff --git a/docs/book/src/capi/providers/nutanix.md b/docs/book/src/capi/providers/nutanix.md
index 34b845c878..fbb97f79ea 100644
--- a/docs/book/src/capi/providers/nutanix.md
+++ b/docs/book/src/capi/providers/nutanix.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This file must have the following format:
 ```
 {
     "force_deregister": "true",
+    "image_export": "false",
     "nutanix_cluster_name": "Name of PE Cluster",
     "nutanix_endpoint": "Prism Central IP / FQDN",
     "nutanix_insecure": "false",
diff --git a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/config.pkr.hcl b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/config.pkr.hcl
index cf940f9fb3..3f0d26dd70 100644
--- a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/config.pkr.hcl
+++ b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/config.pkr.hcl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 packer {
   required_plugins {
     nutanix = {
-      version = ">= 0.3.1"
+      version = ">= 0.7.0"
       source = "github.com/nutanix-cloud-native/nutanix"
     }
   }
diff --git a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/nutanix.json b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/nutanix.json
index 89e0712ee1..ac854f25ea 100644
--- a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/nutanix.json
+++ b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/nutanix.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "force_deregister": "true",
+  "image_export": "false",
   "nutanix_cluster_name": "",
   "nutanix_endpoint": "",
   "nutanix_insecure": "false",
diff --git a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer-windows.json b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer-windows.json
index 655826095a..71e8eea3a3 100644
--- a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer-windows.json
+++ b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer-windows.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       "communicator": "winrm",
       "force_deregister": "{{user `force_deregister`}}",
       "image_description": "kube image-builder packer",
+      "image_export": "{{user `image_export`}}",
       "image_name": "{{user `image_name`}}",
       "memory_mb": "{{user `memory`}}",
       "nutanix_endpoint": "{{user `nutanix_endpoint`}}",
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@
     "crictl_version": null,
     "disk_size_gb": "40",
     "existing_ansible_ssh_args": "{{env `ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS`}}",
+    "image_export": "false",
     "image_name": "{{user `build_name`}}-kube-{{user `kubernetes_semver`}}",
     "kubernetes_base_url": "https://kubernetesreleases.blob.core.windows.net/kubernetes/{{user `kubernetes_semver`}}/binaries/node/windows/{{user `kubernetes_goarch`}}",
     "kubernetes_container_registry": null,
diff --git a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer.json b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer.json
index a29194d8f5..80e296c69c 100644
--- a/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer.json
+++ b/images/capi/packer/nutanix/packer.json
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
       "cpu": "{{user `cpus`}}",
       "force_deregister": "{{user `force_deregister`}}",
       "image_description": "kube image-builder packer",
+      "image_export": "{{user `image_export`}}",
       "image_name": "{{user `image_name`}}",
       "memory_mb": "{{user `memory`}}",
       "nutanix_endpoint": "{{user `nutanix_endpoint`}}",
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@
     "crictl_version": null,
     "disk_size_gb": "10",
     "existing_ansible_ssh_args": "{{env `ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS`}}",
+    "image_export": "false",
     "image_name": "{{user `build_name`}}-kube-{{user `kubernetes_semver`}}",
     "kubernetes_cni_deb_version": null,
     "kubernetes_cni_http_source": null,