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title: "Supported Deployment Methods for Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosgcp/35850457/Supported%20Deployment%20Methods%20for%20Infoblox%20vNIOS%20for%20Google%20Cloud"
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<span style="color: #000000">You can deploy one or more Infoblox vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> instances in your Google VPC, automatically provision them to join the NIOS Grid, and manage your Google VPC DNS services through the Infoblox NIOS Grid Manager.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">Supported deployment methods for Infoblox vNIOS for </span>Google Cloud<span style="color: #000000"> include the following:</span>

- Run NIOS Grid members or Grid Masters in Google Cloud (a public cloud) with secure connectivity and in synchronization with Infoblox NIOS Grids in on-premises private networks or in a hybrid public cloud/on-premises private cloud configuration.
- Run an entire NIOS Grid in your Google VPC.
- Support large-scale deployments spanning dozens of Google VPCs.
- Use elastic scaling for flexible management of NIOS appliance licensing features across the entire Grid, including Cloud Management Platform (CMP) integration. Elastic Scaling enables automatic deployment of Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud instances in your Google VPC.
- DNS zone transfers to keep VPC-based Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud instances in synchronization with the on-premises NIOS Grid.
- Infoblox vNIOS for Google Cloud is compatible with standard operations in the Google Cloud environment.