About Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a virtual appliance designed for deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, an Infrastructure as a Service that is offered by Oracle. The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox Grids.
The NIOS virtual appliance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure functions as a hardware virtual machine guest on the Linux system. It provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and IPAM (IP address management) services. It also provides a framework for integrating all components of the modular Infoblox solution. For more information about the Infoblox Grid, DNS, and IPAM, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
You can deploy an Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance as a virtual cloud member or a Grid Master tied to an on-premise (non-cloud) NIOS Grid, or a virtual standalone Grid member.
Note
For the new vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure models supported from NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, Infoblox recommends that you use SSDs for storage for better performance. See the tables in this topic for the supported models.
The following table lists the NIOS cloud platform appliance that supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:
vNIOS Model for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Platform | Supported NIOS Versions | Overall Disk (GB)* | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Shape | Supported as Grid Master |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CP-V2205 | 8.5.1 and later 8.6.1 and later | 500 | 4 OCPUs (8 vCPU cores) | 60 | VM.Standard2.4 | No |
* If a vNIOS instance is running on a NIOS version prior to 9.0.1, the disk size will be set to 250 GB.
For more information on cloud platform appliances, see the About Cloud API Requests topic in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
The below tables list the Trinzic X6 series models of vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appliances supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later. These models support the cloud platform feature. To use the feature, you must install the Cloud Platform license. For more information, refer to the Managing Licenses in NIOS 9.0.1 topic in the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.
vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appliance model supported in NIOS 9.0.1:
Virtual Appliance | Supported NIOS Versions | Overall Disk (GB) | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Shape | Supported as Grid Master |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IB-V2326 | 9.0.1 | 500 | 10 OCPUs (20 vCPU cores) | 192 GB | VM.Standard3.Flex** | Yes |
vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appliance models supported in NIOS 9.0.2 and later:
Virtual Appliance | Supported NIOS Versions | Overall Disk | Number of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation | Shape | Supported as Grid Master |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IB-V926 | 9.0.2 and later | 500 | 4 OCPUs (8 vCPU cores) | 32 | VM.Standard3.Flex** | Yes |
| IB-V1516 | 9.0.2 and later | 500 | 6 OCPUs (12 vCPU cores) | 64 | Yes | |
| IB-V1526 | 9.0.2 and later | 500 | 8 OCPUs (16 vCPU cores) | 64 | Yes | |
| IB-V2326 | 9.0.2 and later | 500 | 10 OCPUs (20 vCPU cores) | 192 | Yes | |
| IB-V4126 | 9.0.2 and later | 500 | 16 CPUs (32 vCPU cores) | 384 | Yes |
**The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console UI has options to assign the required number of OCPU cores and memory to the selected shape of a vNIOS instance.
Known Limitations
The known limitations of vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are as follows:
- In NIOS version 8.5.1 to 8.5.4, and version 8.6.1, the platform type for the vNIOS appliance is updated as KVM.
- HA and LAN2 interfaces are not supported.
- IPv6 configuration is not supported.
- Virtual Advanced DNS Protection and virtual DNS Cache Acceleration are not supported.
- In the current release, the Microsoft management feature and the security ecosystem features are not tested.
- vDiscovery of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources is not supported.
- If the vNIOS for OCI instance is using paravirtualized networking, there may be occasional packet drops of less than 1% when querying a large number of DNS queries per second as observed during our testing.
- When you shut down a NIOS VM running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, even though NIOS shuts down, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console displays the VM state as RUNNING. To avoid this, Infoblox recommends that you shut down the NIOS VM from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console instead of using the NIOS CLI or Grid Manager.