Infoblox vNIOS for Nutanix AHV is a virtual appliance designed for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox Gridsgrids. For information about Infoblox Gridsgrids, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Administrator GuideNIOS 8.5 online documentation. The NIOS virtual appliance for Nutanix functions as a hardware virtual machine guest on the Linux system. It provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and IPAM (IP address management) services and also provides a framework for integrating all components of the modular Infoblox solution. Additionally, vNIOS also provides TFTP, HTTP, and FTP file transfer services.
In a Nutanix cluster, a node is a fundamental unit. Each node in the cluster runs a standard hypervisor such as AHV and contains processors, memory, and local storage (such as SSDs and hard disks). Nutanix nodes with AHV include a distributed VM management service responsible for storing VM configuration, making scheduling decisions, and exposing a management interface. You can control and manage the Nutanix nodes using a Nutanix web console called Prism. For detailed information about using Prism, see Prism Central Guide at https://portal.nutanix.com, which can also be accessed through . The Prism Central Guide is also accessible from the help link in the Nutanix web console.
The feature that NIOS virtual appliances support is that they can be configured as an HA pair, a Grid master, Grid master candidate, or as a Grid member.
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To maintain high performance on your NIOS virtual appliances and to avoid not having enough resources to service all the NIOS virtual appliances, DO NOT 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. |
The following table lists the NIOS virtual appliances that support Nutanix AHV models.
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Trinzic Series Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
IB-V815 | 250 | 2 | 16 GB | Yes |
IB-V825 | 250 | 2 | 16 GB | Yes |
IB-V1415 | 250 | 4 | 32 GB | Yes |
IB-V1425 | 250 | 4 | 32 GB | Yes |
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