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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, 6.7 Update 2 (and Upper versions), 6.5.x, 6.0.x installed and configure it as a virtual appliance. You can configure the storage either with 250 GB if the virtual appliance is running on a version of NIOS prior to 9.0.1, 500 GB from NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, or you can choose a configuration above 80 GB during the first boot. 

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Infoblox NIOS provides core network services and a framework for integrating all the components of the modular Infoblox solution. NIOS provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and IPAM (IP address management) services. In addition to DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, NIOS also provides TFTP, HTTP, NTP, and FTP file transfer services. vNIOS for VMware provides most of the features supported by NIOS but with some limitations. For information, see the Known Limitations section.

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  • 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.

  • For the new vNIOS for VMware models supported from NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, Infoblox recommends that you use SSDs for storage for better performance.. See the tables in this topic for the supported models.

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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:

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