Supported Platforms for NIOS-X Servers

Before deployment, consider the following requirements:

• Customer-provided bare-metal systems running Linux and Docker version 19.03.5 or higher, or Containerd version 1.5.16 or higher.

• The minimum supported Docker version is 19.03.5.

• Non-standard paths to the Docker daemon socket, such as during Docker installation with Snap, are not supported.

• Kubernetes is not supported.

• VMs deployed on VMware ESXi servers:

  • For regular OVA deployment, supported VMware ESXi server versions are 6.0, 6.7, and 7.0.

  • For high capacity OVA, deployment, supported VMware ESXi serves version 6.5 and above.

• VM infrastructures such as Hyper-V or KVM, running Linux and Docker version 19.03.5 or higher, or Containerd version 1.5.16 or higher. For information about the supported Linux VMs for Hyper-V, refer to this article.

• Dind (Docker-in-Docker) configuration is not supported for NIOS-X server deployments.

• Infoblox supports deploying NIOS-X servers using KVM hypervisor on bare-metal appliances.

• Infoblox supports all versions of OpenStack for deploying NIOS-X servers using OpenStack with KVM hypervisor.

• It is highly recommended that you adhere to the minimum hardware and platform requirements for NIOS-X servers. DHCP version 3.1 or higher is required for DHCP clustering (Advanced Active-Passive). If you do not follow the minimum hardware and platform requirements for NIOS-X servers, DHCP clustering will not be supported. For more information about DHCP clustering, see Creating HA Groups.
  
  
  

Infoblox has validated the following platforms:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8, 7.9, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4.

• Ubuntu: For new deployments, Infoblox recommends Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.3 while we continue to support Ubuntu 18.04.3. Infoblox recommends that you replace or update to Ubuntu 20.04.3 or to Ubuntu 22.04.

• OpenStack 5.6.0 with nova-manage 24.1.0

• QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3 Ubuntu 6.17)