Infoblox vNIOS for Nutanix™ AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) is a virtual appliance designed for Nutanix AHV. The supported NIOS, Nutanix, and AHV versions are as follows:
NIOS Version | Nutanix AOS Version | Hypervisor |
|---|---|---|
8.5.0 | 5.11 | AHV 20170830.270 |
8.5.1 and later | 5.15 LTS | AHV 20170830.395 |
8.5.4 and later | 5.20.3 LTS | AHV 20201105.2030 |
8.6.2 and later | 6.5.1.6 LTS | AHV 20220304.242 |
The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox grids. For information about Infoblox grids, refer to the NIOS 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 that is 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. The Prism Central Guide is also accessible from the help link in the Nutanix web console.
NIOS virtual appliances can be configured as an HA pair, a Grid Master, a Grid Master Candidate, or as a Grid member. 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.
Note
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 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.
For the new vNIOS for Nutanix 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.
The following tables lists the NIOS virtual appliances that support Nutanix AHV.
vNIOS Models for Nutanix AHV
vNIOS Virtual Appliance | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
IB-V815 | 500 | 2 | 16 | Yes |
IB-V825 | 500 | 2 | 16 | Yes |
IB-V1415 | 500 | 4 | 32 | Yes |
IB-V1425 | 500 | 4 | 32 | Yes |
IB-V2215 | 500 | 8 | 64 | Yes |
IB-V2225 | 500 | 8 | 64 | Yes |
IB-V4015 | 500 | 14 | 128 | Yes |
IB-V4025 | 500 | 14 | 128 | Yes |
IB-V5005 | User defined reporting storage | User defined | User defined | No |
The below table lists the models of vNIOS for Nutanix AHV appliances supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later. These models support the cloud platform feature. To use the feature, you must install the Cloud Platform license. For more information, refer to the Managing Licenses in NIOS 9.0.1 topic in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
vNIOS Virtual Appliance | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
IB-V926 | 500 | 8 | 32 | Yes |
IB-V1516 | 500 | 12 | 64 | Yes |
IB-V1526 | 500 | 16 | 64 | Yes |
IB-V2326 | 500 | 20 | 192 | Yes |
IB-V4126 | 500 | 32 | 384 | Yes |
IB-FLEX | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
IB-FLEX | 500 | User defined | User defined | Yes |
Note
IB-FLEX appliances are supported only from NIOS 8.6.2 and later releases. For more information about IB-FLEX and about CPU and memory used for the software Advanced DNS Protection feature, refer to the About IB-FLEX topic in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
Cloud Platform Virtual Appliance | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CP-V805 | 500 | 2 | 16 | No |
CP-V1405 | 500 | 4 | 32 | No |
CP-V2205 | 500 | 8 | 64 | No |
* If a vNIOS instance is running on a NIOS version prior to 9.0.1, the disk size will be set to 250 GB.
Network Insight Virtual Appliance | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ND-V1405 | 500 | 8 | 32 | No |
The following models of vNIOS for Nutanix appliances are supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later:
Network Insight Software Appliance | Overall Disk (GB) | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ND-V1606 | 500 | 16 | 64 | No |
Known Limitations
The known limitations of NIOS virtual appliance for Nutanix AHV are as follows:
Virtual DNS Cache Acceleration is not supported by the virtual appliance.
Among all of Nutanix products, NIOS virtual appliance can be deployed only on Nutanix AHVs.
vDiscovery of Nutanix resources is currently not supported by the virtual appliance.