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title: "About Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud"
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Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud is an Infoblox virtual appliance that enables you to deploy robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox appliances in Google Cloud. Infoblox vNIOS provides core network services and a framework for integrating all the components of the modular Infoblox solution. It provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (IP address management) services. For more information about the Infoblox Grid, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, refer to the *[Infoblox NIOS documentation](https://docs.infoblox.com/)*.

You can use Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud virtual appliances to provide enterprise-grade DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services across your VPC and shared VPC networks on Google Cloud. For the list of virtual NIOS appliances that vNIOS for Google Cloud supports, see *[vNIOS for Google Cloud X6 Series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488748597/vNIOS+for+GCP+X6+series)* and *[vNIOS for Google Cloud X5 Series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488650431/vNIOS+for+GCP+X5+Series)*. For more information about Google Cloud, refer to the Google Cloud Platform documentation at [https://cloud.google.com/docs](https://cloud.google.com/docs).

You can deploy either a two network interface instance or a single network interface instance of the vNIOS appliance on the Google Cloud. Instead of manually provisioning IP addresses and DNS name spaces for network devices and interfaces, you can deploy an Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud instance as one of the following:

- A standalone NIOS appliance to provide DNS services in your Google VPC.
- A virtual cloud member tied to an on-premises (non-Cloud) NIOS Grid.
- A Grid Master synchronizing with other Google Cloud-hosted vNIOS Grid members in your Google VPC, and across VPCs or Zones in different regions.
- A Grid Master or a member in a high availability (HA) setup.

Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud fully supports automated allocations of IP addresses and DNS record creation for business workloads. You can reduce provisioning errors and quickly provision and de-commission resources in your public cloud. NIOS handles all IP address management of Google Cloud instances as well as provisioning and managing all private IP addresses through IPAM.

Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud deployments may be part of a hybrid cloud strategy that supports managing organizational assets on public clouds (for example, Amazon) and on private clouds (for example, OpenStack and VMware). You can use Grid Manager as a unified console to support all cloud platforms, to ensure uniform DNS policies and to provision network and IP addresses.

You can use the vDiscovery feature to configure and run the vDiscovery jobs to discover and periodically re-discover all resources in networks across multiple projects in your Google Cloud and synchronize data with NIOS.

Starting from NIOS 9.0.5, vNIOS for Google Cloud deployments support multi-project synchronization of Google Cloud DNS data by integrating NIOS with Google Cloud DNS. This integration enables NIOS to discover and synchronize DNS data from multiple Google Cloud projects within a Google Cloud organization, providing a unified visualization experience.