vNIOS appliances support most of the features of the Infoblox NIOS software, with some limitations. The subtopics in this section describe these limitations.
Notes
- VMware Tools are automatically installed for each vNIOS appliance. Infoblox supports the control functions in Hyper-V Manager and VMware Tools. For example, through the vSphere client, you can shut down the virtual appliance.
The VMXNET virtual network adapter for vNIOS is not supported from NIOS 8.4.x onwards.
Infoblox NIOS virtual appliances support any hardware that provides the required Hypervisor version, memory, CPU, and disk resources. 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 virtual appliance that is running on the virtualization host. For information about the required specification for each NIOS virtual appliance model, see the following table:
Supported vNIOS Appliance Models and Specifications
| NIOS Virtual Appliances | Primary Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure, and GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | NIOS for Red Hat Open Shift | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IB-V815** | 250 | 2 | 16 | 1100 MHz |  | | 1 | X | | X | Yes |
| IB-V825** | 250 | 2 | 16 | 1600 MHz | | | 1 | | | X | Yes |
| IB-V1415** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 1200 MHz | | | 1 | X | | X | Yes |
| IB-V1425** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 1800 MHz | | | 1 | | | X | Yes |
| IB-V2215** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz | | | 1 | X | | X | Yes |
| IB-V2225** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz | | | 1 | | | | Yes |
| IB-V4015** | 250 | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz | | | 1 | X | X | X | Yes |
| IB-V4025** | 250 | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz | | | 1 | X2 | X | X | Yes |
| Network Insight Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure, and GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ND-V805** | 250 | 2 | 32 | 2700 MHz | | | 1 | X | X | No |
| ND-V1405** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 3600 MHz | | | 1 | X | | No |
| ND-V2205** | 250 | 8 | 32 | 2100 MHz | | | | X | X | No |
| ND-V4005** | 250 | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz | | | | X | X | No |
| NIOS Reporting Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure, and GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IB-V805 ** | 250 | 2 | 32 | 2700 MHz | | | 1 | X | X | No |
| IB-V1405** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 3600 MHz | | | 1 | X | X | No |
| IB-V2205** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz | | | 1 | X | X | No |
| IB-V4005 | 250 (+ 1500 GB reporting storage) | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz | | X | X | X | X | No |
| IB-V5005 | User defined reporting storage | User defined | User defined | NA | | | | X | | No |
| Cloud Platform Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure, and GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | NIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CP-V805 | 250 | 2 | 16 | 2000 MHz | | | | | | X | No |
| CP-V1405 | 250 | 4 | 32 | 6000 MHz | | | | | | X | No |
| CP-V2205 | 250 | 8 | 64 | 12000 MHz | | | | | | | No |
* When running NIOS in MS Hyper-V with dynamic memory allocation enabled, your system might experience high memory usage. To avoid this issue, Infoblox recommends that you disable dynamic memory allocation.
** To achieve best performance on your virtual appliances, follow the recommended specifications and allocate your resources within the limits of the licenses being installed on the appliances.
1 NIOS for KVM is supported in the following environments: OpenStack, RHEL, SUSE Enterprise and Cloud, and CentOS. Note that only IB-V1405 as a Reporting server has been qualified for OpenStack.
2 ND virtual appliances are designed for Network Insight only. Discovery is supported in OpenStack only with SRIOV enabled.
For information about the limitations on each vNIOS appliance, see vNIOS for VMware Limitations.
Note
- TE appliances are also known as the IB appliances.
- You can freely assign resources to these virtual appliances to suit your business needs, as long as the resources are within the limits of the licenses being installed on the appliances.
Important Guidelines About Virtual Appliances
Additional information on supported virtual appliance models is as follows:
- The following appliances are supported in NIOS 8.5. However, the last order date has passed and as such, these appliances are no longer available for new sales:
PT-1400, PT-2200, PT-4000, PT-4000-10GE, ND-800, ND-1400, ND-2200, TE-100*, TE-810, TE-820, TE-1410, TE-1420, TE-2210, TE-2220, TR-800, TR-1400, TR-2200, IB-4010, IB-4020, TR-4000, IB-4030, and IB-4030-10GE. - The following appliances are supported only when you upgrade to NIOS 8.5 from an earlier version. They are not supported on a new NIOS 8.5 installation:
ND-V800, ND-V1400, ND-V2200, TE-V810, TE-V820, TE-V1410, TE-V1420, TE-V2210, TE-V2220, TR-V2200, IB-V4010, IB-V4020, TE-V800, TE-V1400, TE-V2200, CP-V800, CP-V1400, and CP-V2200 - *Infoblox has dropped support for TE-100 in NIOS 8.5.3.
- Using NIOS on appliances supported but not available for purchase or on appliances supported only when you upgrade may result in a performance degrade.
- The CPU core and memory allocation specifications in the tables above will vary when software threat protection is enabled. For information about CPU and memory allocation when software threat protection is enabled, see the NIOS Release Notes available at https://support.infoblox.com.
- DNS forwarding proxy is not supported on IB-100, IB-810, IB-820, IB-V810 and IB-V820 appliances. DNS forwarding proxy is also not supported on any appliance that is running on a memory lower than 4 GB.
- For IB-V4010, in NIOS 7.x versions, the number of CPU cores is 6.
- Deploying vNIOS on Xen Hypervisor is not supported, but you can upgrade from 7.x versions to 8.3 and then upgrade to 8.5.