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Set up a Microsoft Azure account and create a resource manager in Azure public cloud.
Install and set up an Azure command line interface (CLI) as described in the Installing the Azure CLI section. This is required to deploy the vNIOS appliance from the Azure CLI.
Configure an on-prem Infoblox Grid or Grid Master. This is required only if you want to join the vNIOS for Azure instance to the on-prem Grid. For more information, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
Create an Azure managed disk from the Azure CLI as described in the Creating an Azure Managed Disk section.
Azure virtual appliances can be deployed with managed disks from NIOS 8.5.3 onwards. From NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, they can be deployed only with managed disks.To deploy vNIOS for Azure instances in an HA (high availability) setup, a capability introduced in NIOS 9.0.4:
In the Microsoft Azure portal, create a user-assigned managed identity with a custom role that is assigned with permissions listed in the Creating an User-Assigned Managed Identity section below.
When configuring HA, you must create three network interfaces for MGMT, LAN1, and HA on each node of the HA pair. Additionally, assign a secondary IP address to the HA interface on one of the nodes, and ensure that the LAN1 and HA interfaces of both nodes and the secondary IP address are assigned to the same subnetwork. For more information, see Deploying the vNIOS Instance with HA.
In NIOS, configure a DNS resolver in the Grid Properties Editor. For more information about DNS resolvers, refer to the Enabling DNS Resolution topic in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
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