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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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IB-V805, IB-V815, IB-V825, IB-V1405, IB-V1415, IB-V1425, IB-V2205, IB-V2215, IB-V2225, IB-V4005, IBV4015, IB-V4025, IB-V5005, ND-V805, ND-V1405, ND-V2205, ND-V4005, CP-V805, CP-V1405, and CP-V2205. NIOS virtual appliances support 250 GB hard disk allocation.

Note

Note

  • To maintain high performance on your NIOS virtual appliances and to avoid not having enough resources to service all NIOS virtual appliances, do not oversubscribe physical resources on the virtualization host. Required memory, CPU, and disk resources must be adequately allocated for each NIOS virtual appliance that is running on the virtualization host. 

  • From NIOS 8.6.x onwards, hybrid HA is supported. A hybrid HA pair can comprise a physical appliance and a virtual appliance, two physical appliances, or two virtual appliances. For more information on limitations of using HA pair combinations, see Limitations of Using a Combination of a Physical Appliance and a Virtual Appliance for HA.


vNIOS for VMware Appliance Models

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Cloud Platform Virtual Appliances

Overall Disk (GB)

# of CPU Cores

Memory Allocation
(GB)

Virtual CPU Core Frequency Limit

Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate

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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NIOS virtual appliance for VMware support most of the features of the Infoblox NIOS appliances, with the following limitations:

  • When If you are using NIOS versions earlier than 8.6.x, if you configure an HA pair, both nodes in the HA pair must be NIOS virtual instances. You cannot configure a physical NIOS appliance and a NIOS virtual instance in an HA pair in versions earlier than 8.6.x.

  • NIOS virtual appliances run on virtual hardware. They do not have sensors to monitor the physical CPU temperature, fan speed, and system temperature.

  • Changing the NIOS virtual appliance settings through the VMware vSphere or vCenter console may violate the terms of the NIOS virtual licensing and support models. The NIOS virtual  appliance may not join the Grid or function properly.