vNIOS appliances support most of the features of the Infoblox NIOS software, with some limitations. The subtopics in this section describe these limitations.
Notes
VMware Tools are automatically installed for each vNIOS 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.
The VMXNET virtual network adapter for vNIOS is not supported from NIOS 8.4.x onwards.
Infoblox NIOS virtual appliances support any hardware that provides the required Hypervisor version, memory, CPU, and disk resources. To maintain high performance on your NIOS virtual appliances and to avoid not having enough resources to service all the NIOS virtual appliances, do not oversubscribe physical resources on the virtualization host. Required memory, CPU, and disk resources must be adequately allocated for each virtual appliance that is running on the virtualization host. For information about the required specification for each NIOS virtual appliance model, see the following table:
Supported vNIOS Appliance Models and Specifications
NIOS Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure and GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | NIOS for Red Hat Open Shift | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
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IB-V815** | 250 | 2 | 16 | 1100 MHz |
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| X | Yes |
IB-V825** | 250 | 2 | 16 | 1600 MHz |
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| X | Yes |
IB-V1415** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 1200 MHz |
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| X |
| X | Yes |
IB-V1425** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 1800 MHz |
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| X | Yes |
IB-V2215** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz |
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| X |
| X | Yes |
IB-V2225** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz |
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| Yes |
IB-V4015** | 250 | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz |
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| X |
| Yes |
IB-V4025** | 250 | 16 | 122 | 2400 MHz |
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| X | X | Yes |
NIOS Reporting Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure | NIOS for | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
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IB-V805** | 250 | 2 | 32 | 2700 MHz |
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| X | X | X | No |
IB-V1405** | 250 | 4 | 32 | 3600 MHz |
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| X | X | X | No |
IB-V2205** | 250 | 8 | 64 | 2100 MHz |
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| X | X | X | No |
IB-V4005 | 250 (+ 1500 GB reporting storage) | 14 | 128 | 2400 MHz |
| X | X | X | X | X | No |
IB-V5005 | User defined reporting storage | User defined | User defined | N / A |
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| X |
| No |
Network Insight Virtual Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for AWS, Azure, and | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
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ND-V805** | 500 | 2 | 32 | 2700 MHz |
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| X | X | No |
ND-V1405** | 500 | 8 | 32 | 3600 MHz |
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| X |
| No |
ND-V2205** | 500 | 16 | 64 | 2100 MHz |
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| X | X | No |
ND-V4005** | 500 | 28 | 128 | 2400 MHz |
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| X | X | No |
Cloud Platform Appliances | Overall Disk (GB) | # of CPU Cores | Memory Allocation (GB) | Recommended CPU Per Core Clock Rate | NIOS for VMware | NIOS for MS Hyper-V* | NIOS for KVM | NIOS for AWS, Azure, GCP | NIOS for Nutanix AHV | NIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate |
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CP-V805 | 250 | 2 | 16 | 2000 MHz |
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| X | No |
CP-V1405 | 250 | 4 | 32 | 6000 MHz |
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| X | No |
CP-V2205 | 250 | 8 | 64 | 12000 MHz |
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| No |
* When running NIOS in MS Hyper-V with dynamic memory allocation enabled, your system might experience high memory usage. To avoid this issue, Infoblox recommends that you disable dynamic memory allocation.
* For optimal performance, vNIOS for Hyper-V is not recommended as a Grid Master or Grid Master Candidate.
* Specifications of vNIOS for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub are different from the other vNIOS for Microsoft Azure flavors. For the exact specifications, see Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS for Microsoft Azure.
** To achieve best performance on your virtual appliances, follow the recommended specifications and allocate your resources within the limits of the licenses being installed on the appliances.
*** Specifications of Network Insight appliances for vNIOS for AWS and vNIOS for Azure are different from other vNIOS products. For detailed specifications, see the Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS andInstallation Guide for vNIOS for AWS (DRAFT)for AWS, Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS for Microsoft Azure respectively.
1 NIOS for KVM is supported in the following environments: Red Hat OpenStack and Ubuntu. Note that only IB-V1405 as a reporting server has been qualified for Red Hat OpenStack.
2 vNIOS for AWS is supported on the IB-V4025 appliance running NIOS 8.5.2 or later, and IB-V4015 appliance running NIOS 8.6.2 or later. vNIOS for Azure and vNIOS for GCP instances are supported on IB-V4015 and IB-V4025 appliances running NIOS 8.6.2 or later.
3 vNIOS for AWS and vNIOS for Azure instances are supported only on the IB-V5005 appliance running NIOS 8.6.2 or later. For detailed specifications, see the Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS for AWS and Infoblox Installation Guide vNIOS for Microsoft Azure.
For information about the limitations on each vNIOS appliance, see vNIOS for VMware Limitations.
NIOS 8.6.1 is not supported on the following appliances:
IB-250, IB-250-A, IB-500, IB-550, IB-550-A, IB-1000, IB-1050, IB-1050-A, IB-1550, IB-1550-A, IB-1552, IB-1552-A, IB-1852-A, IB-2000, IB-2000-A, IB-VM-250, IB-VM-550, IB-VM-1050, IB-VM-1550, IB-VM-1850, IB-VM-2000, PT-1400, PT-2200, PT-4000, PT-4000-10GE, ND-800, ND-1400, ND-2200, TE-100, TE-810, TE-820, TE-1410, TE-1420, TE-2210, TE-2220, TR-800, TR-1400, TR-2200, IB-4010, IB-4020, TR-4000, IB-4030, ND-V800, ND-V1400, ND-V2200, TE-V810, TE-V820, TE-V1410, TE-V1420, TE-V2210, TE-V2220, TR-V2200, IB-V4010, IB-V4020, TE-V800, TE-V1400, TE-V2200, CP-V800, CP-V1400, CP-V2200, and Trinzic Reporting TR-2000 and TR-2000-A series appliances.
Because these appliances are not supported, Infoblox recommends that you do not upgrade to NIOS 8.6.1 on these appliances.
Note
TE appliances are also known as the IB appliances.
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.
For the latest and most complete list of supported platforms, see the 8.6.1 Release Notes.