Although using an HA master is ideal because of the hardware redundancy it provides, you can also use a single appliance as the Grid Master. You can create a single Grid Master in either IPv4, IPv6, or dual mode (IPv4 and IPv6). Infoblox recommends frequent backups if the Grid Master is a single appliance, and there is no Master Candidate. For information about which vNIOS appliance supports configuration as a single Grid Master, see vNIOS Appliances.
Setting up an appliance as a single Grid Master is very easy. If the appliance has the DNSone package with the Grid upgrade, it is already a Grid Master. You simply need to define the network settings for its LAN1 port. The various procedures for defining the network settings for the LAN1 port of a single independent appliance apply here as well. Therefore, you can use any of the following procedures to define the network settings for the LAN1 port of the appliance that you want to make a single Grid Master:
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