Hosts, formerly referred to as on-prem hosts, are physical or virtual appliances on which you run BloxOne services according to your license entitlements. Depending on your network infrastructure and how you want to implement hosts, you can deploy them by using Infoblox-provided hardware and OVA packages or via bare-metal deployment and other supported open platforms.
Before you create service instances and associate them with deployed hosts, ensure that you understand the basics of deploying hosts for specific services. For more information, see the following:
- Deploying Hosts for BloxOne Threat Defense
- Deploying Hosts for BloxOne DDI
- Deploying Hosts for Data Connector
To ensure a successful host deployment, set up your environment according to the requirements. For more information, see the following:
For information about the various methods to deploy hosts, see the following:
- Bare-metal Docker Deployment
- QCOW2 on KVM Hypervisor Deployment
- OpenStack with KVM Hypervisor Deployment
- Microsoft Azure Deployment
- ESXi OVA Deployment using vCenter
- vCenter OVA Deployment to ESXi Using ovftool
- OVA as an OVF Template on ESXi Deployment
- Deploying the Dell Hardware
- EC2 Instances Using AMI in AWS Deployment