Appendix F NIOS Virtual Appliances

NIOS virtual appliances support most of the features of the Infoblox NIOS software, with some limitations. This appendix describes these limitations. Table E.1 summarizes the supported NIOS virtual appliance models.

Note: VMware Tools are automatically installed for each NIOS virtual 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.

Table E.1 Supported NIOS virtual Appliance Models and Specifications

NIOS Virtual Appliances	Primary Disk (GB)	# of CPU Cores	Memory Allocation (GB)	Virtual CPU Core Frequency Limit	NIOS for VMware	NIOS for MS Hyper-V	NIOS for Xen	NIOS for KVM	NIOS for AWS	Supported as Grid Master and Grid
IB-VM-100	55	1	1	1300 MHz						No
IB-VM-800 (for reporting only; 1 GB daily limit)	300 (Primary & Reporting)	2	Range: 4 – 8 Default: 8	3000 MHz	3			1		No
IB-VM-800 (for reporting only; 2 GB daily limit)	300 (Primary & Reporting)	2	Range: 4 – 8 Default: 8	3000 MHz	3					No
IB-V805 * (Reporting only)	250 (+ 1 TB user defined reporting storage)	2	32	N / A				4		No
IB-VM-810	55	2	2	2000 MHz						No
IB-VM-810	160	2	2	2000 MHz						No
IB-V815 *	250	2	16	N / A				4		Yes
IB-VM-820	55	2	4	3000 MHz						Yes2
IB-VM-820	160	2	4	3000 MHz						Yes2
IB-V825 *	250	2	16	N / A				4		Yes
IB-VM-1400 (for reporting only; 5 GB daily limit)	555 (Primary & Reporting)	4	Default: 8 GB	8000 MHz	3					No
IB-V1405 * (Reporting only)	250 (+1.2 TB user defined reporting storage)	4	32	N / A				4		No
IB-VM-1410	55	4	8 GB	6000 MHz						No
IB-VM-1410	160	4	8	6000 MHz						Yes2
IB-V1415 *	250	4	32	N / A				4		Yes
IB-VM-1420	160	4	8	8000 MHz						Yes2
IB-V1425 *	250	4	32	N / A				4		Yes
IB-V2205 * (Reporting only)	250 (+ 2.4 TB user defined reporting storage)	8	64	N / A				4		No
IB-VM-2210	160	4	12	12000 MHz						Yes2
IB-V2215 *	250	8	64	N / A				4		Yes
IB-VM-2220	160	4	12	12000 MHz						Yes2
IB-V2225 *	250	8	64	N / A				4		Yes
IB-V4000 (Reporting only)	250 (+ 1500 GB reporting storage)	8	24	2400 MHz						No
IB-V4005 (Reporting only)	250 (+ user defined reporting)	14	128	2400 MHz						No
IB-V4015	250	14	128	2400 MHz				4		Yes
IB-V4025	250	14	128	2400 MHz				4		Yes
IB-V5005**	User defined reporting storage	User defined	User defined	N / A						No

Network Insight Virtual Appliances	Overall Disk (GB)	# of CPU Cores	Memory Allocation (GB)	Virtual CPU Core Frequency Limit	NIOS for VMware	NIOS for MS Hyper-V	Nios for Xen	NIOS for KVM	NIOS for AWS	Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate
ND-V800	160	2	8	3000 MHz	3					No
ND-V805 *5	250	2	32	N / A				4		No
ND-V1400	160	4	16	8000 MHz	3					No
ND-V1405 *5	250	4	32	N / A				4		No
ND-V2200	160	8	24	24000 MHz	3					No
ND-V2205 *5	250	8	32	N / A				4		No
ND-V4005	250	14	128	2400 MHz				4		Yes

Cloud Platform Virtual Appliances	Overall Disk (GB)	# of CPU Cores	Memory Allocation (GB)	Virtual CPU Core Frequency Limit	NIOS for VMware	NIOS for MS Hyper-V	Nios for Xen	NIOS for KVM	NIOS for AWS	Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate
CP-V800	160	2	2	2000 MHz						No
CP-V1400	160	4	8	6000 MHz						No
CP-V2200	160	4	12	12000 MHz						No

NOTES:

• 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.

¹For KVM hypervisor only. Not supported for KVM-based OpenStack. Does not support Elastic Scaling.

²NIOS virtual appliance for Hyper-V is not recommended as a Grid Master or Grid Master Candidate. IB-VM-820 with 55 GB disk is not supported as the Grid Master or Grid Master Candidate for the NIOS virtual for KVM. The Identity Mapping feature is supported on the IB-VM-810 and IB-VM-820 appliances only if they are configured as Grid members, not as the Grid Master.

³Does not support Elastic Scaling.

⁴NIOS 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.

⁵ND virtual appliances are designed for Network Insight only. Discovery is supported in OpenStack only with SRIOV enabled.
For information about the limitations on each NIOS virtual appliance, see the following:

• NIOS for Riverbed
• NIOS for VMware
• NIOS for Hyper-V
• NIOS for Xen

NIOS for Riverbed
NIOS virtual appliances on Riverbed have the following limitations:

• They can function as Grid members only. You cannot configure them as HA (high availability) pairs, Grid Masters, Grid Master candidates, or independent appliances.
• On a Grid with a NIOS virtual appliance on Riverbed as a Grid member, the maximum storage space for HTTP, FTP and TFTP is 1 GB (a Grid with only Infoblox appliances provides a maximum of 5 GB for these services), core files are 100 MB each, and syslog and inflobox.log files are 20 MB each. Scheduled backup file is 100 MB.
• The LAN interface is the only network interface available on the NIOS virtual appliance. You cannot configure the speed and transmission type (full or half duplex) of the network interface.
• You can use the traffic capture tool of the NIOS virtual software package to capture traffic only on the LAN port of the NIOS virtual appliance.
• NIOS virtual appliances on Riverbed do not support the following features:
  • Anycast addressing
  • Configuration as a DHCP lease history logging member
  • Dedicated MGMT port
  • NTP service
  • bloxTools environment
  • Configuration for managing Microsoft® Windows DNS servers