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title: "Supported Platforms for NIOS-X Servers"
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Before deployment, consider the following requirements:

- <span style="color: #111111">Customer-provided bare-metal systems running Linux and Docker version 19.03.5 or higher, or Containerd version 1.5.16 or higher.</span>
- The minimum supported Docker version is 19.03.5.
- Non-standard paths to the Docker daemon socket, such as during Docker installation with Snap, are not supported.
- Kubernetes is not supported.
- VMs deployed on VMware ESXi servers:
  - For regular OVA deployment, supported VMware ESXi server versions are 6.0, 6.7, 7.0, and 8.0.3.

<span style="color: #3e3f40">For information on how to download OVA packages, see </span>*[Downloading NIOS‑X Servers and Infoblox Endpoint Clients](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35397442)*<span style="color: #3e3f40">.</span>

- <span style="color: #111111">VM infrastructures such as Hyper-V or KVM, running Linux and Docker version 19.03.5 or higher, or Containerd version 1.5.16 or higher</span>. For information about the supported Linux VMs for Hyper-V, refer to <u><span style="color: #0000ff">*[this article](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-linux-and-freebsd-virtual-machines-for-hyper-v-on-windows)*</span></u>.
- Dind (Docker-in-Docker) configuration is not supported for NIOS-X server deployments.
- <span style="color: #000000">Infoblox supports deploying NIOS-X servers using KVM hypervisor on bare-metal appliances.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Infoblox supports all versions of OpenStack for deploying NIOS-X servers using OpenStack with KVM hypervisor.</span>
- Infoblox supports deploying NIOS-X servers on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
- Infoblox supports deploying NIOS-X servers on the Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) 9 hypervisor.
- <span style="color: #000000">It is highly recommended that you adhere to the minimum hardware and platform requirements for NIOS-X servers. DHCP version 3.1 or higher is required for DHCP clustering (Advanced Active-Passive). If you do not follow the minimum hardware and platform requirements for NIOS-X servers, DHCP clustering will not be supported. For more information about DHCP clustering, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Creating HA Groups](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneDDI/pages/186467301)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

**Supported Platforms for Bare-Metal NIOS-X Servers**:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, and 9.8.
- Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04.
- <span style="color: #000000">OpenStack 5.6.0 with nova-manage 24.1.0</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (Debian 1:4.2-3 Ubuntu 6.17)</span>

> ⚠️ Avoid using subnets smaller than /30 for host interface IP settings to prevent configuration issues. Use a /24 subnet to ensure the gateway IP is within the same subnet and avoid validation errors.

## Hardware Virtualization Support

Deploy NIOS-X servers on the latest processors with hardware virtualization support. NIOS-X servers benefit greatly from the hardware virtualization support included in the latest generation processors. Older processors may not perform well in high-performance applications, such as those with a high license count.