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NIOS in AWS

The following appliances are supported in AWS/Azure/GCP

  • TE-825
  • TE-1425
  • TE-2225
  • TE-4015
  • TE-4025
  • TE-V5005

Network Discovery appliances are not supported in AWS.

Only two interfaces are on the AWS appliances - MGMT and LAN1.

Note: The Route53 integration in NIOS requires the CNA license to be installed on the GM/GMC.

AWS - Use General Purpose SSD (gp2). Maybe use IOPS SSD (io1) where high levels of input are expected. Do not use Magnetic (standard) unless possibly in a lab.NIOS x6 on AWS

AWS x6

Model VM CPUs VM Memory Image
TE-926 4 32Gb m6i.2xlarge
TE-1516 6 64Gb m6i.4xlarge
TE-1526 8 64Gb r6i.4xlarge
TE-2326 10 192Gb r6i.8xlarge
TE-4126 16 384Gb r6i.12xlarge

AMI

NISO 8.6.2 in eu-west-2 (London) = ami-0c6eafc0cb90588fd (r4.large)

Subnet

AWS allows you to create a subnet in your VPC that uses the same CIDR prefix and mask as for the host VPC, and add new instances to it. For example, consider a VPC CIDR 172.17.0.0/16. In AWS, an administrator is allowed to create a subnet with the same CIDR 172.17.0.0/16 and to run instances within it. NIOS does not allow for subnets in an AWS VPC that use the same prefix and mask as the VPC network container, and does not discover or recognize resources within that subnet. You will also not be able to create new Grid objects in that subnet. Ensure that all VPCs to be managed or discovered through Grid Manager only use subnets with CIDR mask values that are smaller than the CIDR denoting the VPC. For example, the host VPC has a CIDR mask of /16, and the subnets have a mask of /24.

DHCP Service for On-Premises Clients

A vNIOS appliance running on AWS can provide DHCP service for your on-premises clients. This DHCP appliance can serve as your primary DHCP server or be configured as part of a failover pair with a NIOS DHCP server running on-premises for a hybrid, survivable solution. Two vNIOS appliances, each running in AWS could also be configured for DHCP failover for highly available, fault tolerant DHCP services. Using a vNIOS appliance running on AWS for DHCP requires using DHCP Relay or IP Helper on your router or layer 3 switch to send DHCP traffic from your on-premises network to your AWS VPC.

NIOS on AWS

Best PDF on NIOS in AWS is here.

Official documentation is also here.

TE-1425 appliances will use EC2 instance type “r4.xlarge” (4 vCPU, 30.5 GB) and will have a 250 GiB General Purpose SSD (gp2) EBS storage disk.

There are two network interfaces.

Note: In order to use the MGMT interface of your vNIOS for AWS instance, you will need a VPC with two subnets in the same availability zone and the LAN1 and MGMT interfaces must be deployed in separate subnets.

When deploying, you can set defaults

#infoblox-config
remote_console_enabled: y
default_admin_password: infoblox
temp_license: enterprise dns dhcp cloud nios IB-V1425
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