Infoblox vNIOS for Nutanix AHV is a virtual appliance designed for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost effective Infoblox Grids. For information about Infoblox Grids, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Administrator Guide. 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 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, which can also be accessed through the help link in the Nutanix web console.

The feature that NIOS virtual appliances support is that they can be configured as an HA pair, a Grid master, Grid master candidate, or Grid member.

The following table lists the NIOS virtual appliances that support Nutanix AHV models.

vNIOS for Nutanix AHV Models

About this Guide

This guide introduces vNIOS for Nutanix AHV and describes how to install the Infoblox vNIOS virtual appliance on Nutanix AHV. It also describes how to configure the NIOS virtual appliance as a Grid member. For complete information about administering Infoblox appliances, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Administrator Guide.