vNIOS for OpenStack and vNIOS for Red Hat OpenStack supports most of the features of the Infoblox NIOS appliances with the following limitations:
vNIOS appliances run on virtual hardware. They do not have sensors to monitor the physical CPU temperature, fan speed, and system temperature.
Changing the vNIOS appliance settings through KVM may violate the terms of the vNIOS licensing and support models. The vNIOS appliance may not join the Grid or function properly.
If the vNIOS instance fails to launch, the ports created for the instance are not deleted automatically. You need to delete them manually.
When you start an FTP connection on OpenStack with the Listen on port field set to 2021, you need to manually add a rule to allow the 2021 port. This ensures that the connection is successful.
Connection to the FTP service might fail when the virtual appliance enter the passive mode. To avoid this, do the following:
Use active mode instead of passive mode.
Modify the vnios-sec-group security group to open ports 1023 and above.
Use the FTP client inside the internal network.
The vNIOS instances deployed in the OpenStack environment do not support HSM Safenet groups.
You cannot configure the reporting virtual appliance as an HA pair. You also cannot configure it as a Grid Master or Grid Master Candidate. You can use it only as a dedicated reporting server in the Grid.
At certain times, a power failure (or an unexpected reboot) of the VM host may cause corruption of the VM guest unless writes are correctly persisted by setting the value of the
disk_cachemodesparameter towritethrough. For more information, see the Deploying vNIOS for OpenStack topic.