Requirements

This release of vNIOS for Xen supports Citrix XenServer 6.1 and 6.2 running Xen hypervisor. For information about supported vNIOS for Xen model specifications, see the table above.
The following are required to install the vNIOS virtual appliance on a XenCenter:

• The vNIOS software package. You can download the vNIOS software from the Infoblox Technical Support site. To download the software, you must have a valid login account on the Infoblox Support site. Register your product at https://support.infoblox.com if you do not already have an account. The vNIOS software package consists of a template file with .ova extension for all the supported vNIOS appliance models. Make sure that you download the file with an extension that corresponds to the appliance model number. For example, to install IB-VM-550 with a 50 GB disk on Citrix Xen 6.1 and 6.2 servers, download nios-6.11.0-241423-2014-05-26-08-02-40-50G-550-xen.ova. For IB-VM-810 with a 160 GB disk, download the file that has the extension xxxx-160G-810-xen.ova. For information about the vNIOS appliance models on Citrix Xen, see table above.

  • After you download the .ova file, you can run the tar -xvf nios-xxx.ova command to untar the .ova and separate .ovf and .vmdk files.

  • You can deploy the vNIOS virtual appliance from a remote web server or a local file system accessible from your management system.

• A management system that has a XenCenter client installed. To manage multiple hosts, the XenCenter client must be connected to the XenServer system.