Versions Compared

Version Old Version 24 New Version 25
Changes made by

Jyothi KP

Panna .

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

You can install the NIOS virtual software package on a host with VMware ESX or ESXi 8.0b, 7.0.3, 7.0.2, 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. 

...

Network Insight Virtual Appliances

Overall Disk (GB)

# of CPU Cores

Memory Allocation
(GB)

Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate

ND-V805*1

500

4

32

No

ND-V1405*1

500

8

32

No

ND-V2205*1

500

16

64

No

ND-V4005*1

500

28

128

Yes

Note

Note

*1 The The overall disk space for an ND appliance is 500 GB. Only in NIOS 8.4.x, the overall disk space is 250 GB.

The following models of vNIOS for VMware appliances are supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later:

...

Cloud Platform Virtual Appliance

Overall Disk (GB)

# of CPU Cores

Memory Allocation
(GB)

Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate

CP-V805

250

2

16

No

CP-V1405

250

4

32

No

CP-V2205

250

8

64

No

Requirements

The requirements to install the NIOS virtual appliance on a VMware ESX/ESXi server are as follows:

  • The NIOS software package:

    • You can download the NIOS software from the Infoblox Technical Support site. To download the software, you must have a valid login account on the Infoblox Support site. Register your product at https://support.infoblox.com if you do not already have an account. The NIOS software package consists of a template file with .ova extension for all supported NIOS appliance models. Make sure that you download the file with .ova extension.

    • After you download the .ova file, you can run the tar -xvf nios-xxx.ova command to untar the .ova and separate .ovf and .vmdk files.

    • You can deploy the NIOS virtual appliance from a remote web server or from a local file system accessible from your management system.

  • A management system that has an installed vSphere client: . To manage multiple hosts, the vSphere client must be connected to the vCenter server system.

...