Managing hosts of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method for managing hosts of a workload domain of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, the method comprising:

• managing a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device comprising a plurality of hosts, wherein the plurality of hosts is allocable to workload domains, wherein unallocated hosts of the plurality of hosts is maintained within a pool of unallocated hosts, and wherein the plurality of hosts each have an operating system version;
• determining that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of a range of supported operating system versions;
• and
• updating the operating system version of the unallocated host to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions.

A pre-configured hyper-converged computing device for supporting a virtualization infrastructure comprising:

• a plurality of hosts, wherein each host of the plurality of hosts has an operating system version, wherein the plurality of hosts is allocable to workload domains, wherein unallocated hosts of the plurality of hosts is maintained within a pool of unallocated hosts, and wherein the plurality of hosts each have an operating system version;
• and
• a pre-configured software module supporting the virtualization infrastructure, the pre-configured software module is configured to:
• manage the workload domains;
• maintain a pool of unallocated hosts within the pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, wherein the unallocated hosts of the pool have operating system versions within a range of supported operating system versions;
• determine that an unallocated host of the pool of unallocated hosts has an operating system version that is outside of a range of supported operating system versions;
• and
• update the operating system version of the unallocated host to an operating system version within the range of supported operating system versions.