Deploying NIOS-X Servers

NIOS-X servers (formerly hosts or on-prem hosts) are physical or virtual servers on which you run Infoblox protocol services or NIOS-X as a Service (NIOS-XaaS) based on your license entitlements. Depending on your network infrastructure and how you want to implement NIOS-X servers, 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 servers, ensure that you understand the basics of deploying servers for specific services. For more information, see the following:

• Deploying Servers for Infoblox Threat Defense

• Deploying Servers for Univeral DDI

• Deploying Servers for Data Connector

To ensure a successful NIOS-X server deployment, set up your environment according to the requirements. For more information, see the following:

• NIOS-X Server Connectivity and Service Requirements

• Best Practices for Deploying Servers

For information about the various methods to deploy NIOS-X servers, 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 Dell Physical Servers

• EC2 Instances Using AMI in AWS Deployment