You can install the NIOS virtual software package on a host with VMware ESX or ESXi 8.0, 7.0, 6.7, 6.5.x, 6.0.x installed and configure it as a virtual appliance. You can configure the storage either with 250 GB or you can choose a configuration above 80 GB during the first boot.
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NIOS virtual appliances support the following features:
Configuration as an HA pair, hybrid HA pair (for NIOS versions 8.6.x onwards), a Grid Master, Reporting server, or a Grid Master Candidate
Anycast addressing
OSPF
BGP
Static routes
IPv6
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Cloud Platform Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Virtual CPU Core Frequency Limit | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
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CP-V805 | 250 | 2 | 16 | 1100 MHz | No |
CP-V1405 | 250 | 4 | 32 | 1200 MHz | No |
CP-V2205 | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz | No |
Requirements
The requirements to install the NIOS virtual appliance on a VMware ESX/ESXi server are as follows:
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