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Infoblox Virtual Appliance Software for VMware®
Solution Highlights
• Save power and environment
by reducing the number of
servers and appliances
• Lower TCO by saving
hardware, power, cooling and
real-estate costs
• Deploy easily using your
standard virtualization practices
• Benefit from increased
resilience and availability of
VMware environments
Network Insight
Member/Grid
Master Candidate
Infoblox
Infoblox Infoblox Virtual
Software on VMware
Example of Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware deployed in an
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Automated DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI) Infrastructure
Infoblox Virtual Appliance Software for VMware leverages
VMware virtualization technology, running Infoblox
services and management features as a family of virtual
appliances on VMware ESXi. It is fully integrated with the
Infoblox Grid, and supports mixed physical and virtual
appliance deployments.
Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware is a full-featured
software instance of Infoblox DDI and offers a full suite
of core network services— including DNS, DHCP, IPAM,
FTP, TFTP, HTTP and NTP protocol servers. Infoblox Network Insight and Infoblox
Reporting Virtual Software for VMware provide unprecedented data and views to help
administrators better manage their networks, validate designs, effectively provision,
troubleshoot and deliver network services.
In addition to supporting iSCSI SAN and Direct Attached Storeage, Infoblox Virtual
Appliance Software for VMware has also been certified to run on Fibre Channel Network
Attached Storage, including hosting of the disk image and vMotion support benefiting
datacenter virtualization and cloud deployments that prefer a virtual network services
appliance deployment, using new or existing Fibre Channel infrastructure for storage.
Grid Master Reduced Rack Space, Power
and Cooling Requirements in
the Data Center
Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware runs
on existing hardware, saving equipment rack
space and reducing power and cooling costs,
enabling organizations to lower their Total Cost
of Ownership and build an environmentally
friendly infrastructure.
Member Increased Resilience and Availability
Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware replicates
all of the redundancy, high availability and
disaster recovery features of Infoblox hardware
appliances. Customers will gain all of the proven
reliability and uptime beneits of an Infoblox
solution while taking advantage of the cost
Grid advantages of VMware virtualization.
The virtual appliances can be deployed on a
VMware server just like any other virtual machine
Member instance with no additional steps required.
Local Survivability at the Branch Office
Infoblox Grid™
Infoblox Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware
provides an easy alternative to deploying hardware
appliances at the branch office while still providing
highly available DNS and DHCP services.
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Infoblox Virtual Appliance Software for VMware®

Infoblox Virtual Software is Key to the Success of

Your Virtualized Infrastructure

Automate IPAM for Virtual Resources

In a virtualized environment, servers are created, moved and shutdown frequently,
increasing IT workload for coniguring and managing IP assignments and DNS
records. Infoblox DNS, DHCP and IPAM solutions provides management automation
to reduce administrative effort and eliminate human errors that can cause application
availability problems.

Improve IPAM Visibility and Control

Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware IPAM provides advanced network discovery
(including virtual resources), network and IP mapping, and advanced iltering through
innovative features such as “Smart Folders.” An easy to use graphical user interface
provides template-based coniguration, automated error prevention, and real-time
visibility monitoring and reporting.

Delegate DDI Tasks to Relevant Owners

Infoblox Virtual Software for VMware provides secure role based administration and
auditing capabilities to allow effective delegation of responsibilities in a virtualized
environment. With Infoblox IPAM tools the network and the data center or server teams
can effectively collaborate and work together more effectively.

Visibility of Infrastructure Device Data

Infoblox Network Insight virtual software for VMware integrates infrastructure device
data with IP address management. The collection and correlation of this data provides
unprecedented visibility to help administrators better manage their networks, validate
designs, effectively provision, troubleshoot and deliver network services.

Long-Term Trending, Reporting and Analysis

Infoblox Reporting leverages our unique platform for real-time views and management
of DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management (IPAM) and Network Services Security to
provide long-term reporting, trending and tracking. Integrated with our Grid™ technology,
Infoblox Reporting enhances real-time management of networks and network services
through an extensive, customizable and historical reporting engine.

Centrally Manage your Entire DDI Infrastructure

Each instance of the Virtual Appliance software running on a VMware hypervisor
appears to the Infoblox Grid™ as any other Grid™ member, with all of the beneits of
distributed services and centralized management. This includes centralized backup and
restoration of user data, DHCP failover capabilities, one-touch software upgrades, DNS
without latency, and many other beneits of the Infoblox solution.

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Infoblox Virtual Appliance

Software for KVM

KVM for KVM for Supported as

NIOS Virtual Model
Hypervisor OpenStack Grid Master

TE-V100 X X

TE-V800 X

TR-V800 X X

TR-V805 X X

TE-V810 X X X

TE-V815 X X X

TE-V820 X X X

TE-V825 X X X

TR-V1405 X X

TE-V1415 X X X

TE-V1420 X X X

TE-V1425 X X X

TR-V2205 X X

TE-V2215 X X X

TE-V2200 X X X

TE-V2225 X X X

ND-V805 X X

ND-V1405 X X

ND-V2205 X X

CP-V800 X X

CP-V1400 X X

CP-V2200 X X

*NIOS for KVM is supported in the following environments: OpenStack, RHEL, SuSE Enterprise and Cloud, and CentOS.

Infoblox Product Warranty and Services

Infoblox delivers critical network services that protect Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, automate cloud deployments, and
increase the reliability of enterprise and service provider networks around the world. As the industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP
address management, the category known as DDI, Infoblox (www.infoblox.com) reduces the risk and complexity of networking.

Corporate Headquarters: +1.408.986.4000 1.866.463.6256 (toll-free, U.S. and Canada) info@infoblox.com www.infoblox.com

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Purpose-built Trinzic Appliances are Optimized for Remote Management and

Appliance Energy Efficiency
Remote Management
• Lights Out Management,
Purpose-built network appliances
IPMI 2.0 deliver high-performance, reliable, and
• Unit-identification button/ secure DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI)
LED
• Real-time system Infoblox Trinzic appliances are purpose-built,
environmental and fault
high-performance hardware devices that form
monitoring
the foundation of an organization’s network
• SNMP monitoring with
lnfoblox MIBS services and reporting solutions.

All models can be deployed individually or

High Availability
in a high-availability (HA) pair distributed
• Redundant power supplies
architecture, leveraging Infoblox Grid™ for optimal service resiliency.
• Redundant disks
• Redundant cooling fans Appliance-based delivery of IP network services and reporting has become a recommended
• Power supply field- industry best practice for any size organization. Appliances are inherently more reliable, manageable,
replaceable unit
scalable, and secure than software running on general-purpose servers whose well-understood
• Disk field-replaceable unit
operating systems are more easily compromised.
• Fan field-replaceable unit
• ECC RAM The 800, 1400, 2200, and 4000 Trinzic appliances support Lights Out Management (LOM) for remote
site communication and management, feature a Unit Identification button/LED, and utilize the latest
Power Efficiency technology for achieving energy efficiency.
• Lower power consumption
• Supports for the Go Green A Scalable Family of Hardware Platforms
initiative
The Trinzic appliance family offers a wide range of models that are designed to deliver the
performance, capacity, and availability required in each unique environment, from the smallest
Advanced Requirements
branch office to the largest enterprise or service provider network.
• Top-quality, enterprise-
class, and energy-efficient
components Hardware and Performance Specification
• Custom-designed chassis Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic Trinzic
to meet U.S. Government 810 815 820 825 1410 1415 1420 1425 2210 2215 2220 2225 4010 /
4020
security requirements
• Service-provider options DNS Queries 4K 6K 15K 22.5K 30K 45K 50K 75K 61K 90K 143K 200K 200K
with high-performance DNS per Second*
caching, NEBS compliance
and DC power
DHCP Leases 60 90 105 150 210 300 300 450 375 550 600 900 1020
• Optical and copper SFP per Second*
interfaces
• Expansion slots
Hardware N/A Optional second power supply, Hot-swappable, redundant power supplies,
Redundancy hot-swappable redundant. fans, and four disks RAID-10
Field-replaceable hard disk.

* The stated performance numbers were derived in an Infoblox test environment. Actual performance in live production
environments may be different.

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