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title: "Deploying a vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Instance as a Reporting Appliance"
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To deploy a vNIOS instance as a reporting appliance, you must attach an additional storage disk for reporting. You can attach the second disk by one of the following ways:

- Attaching a block volume while creating a vNIOS instance as explained in the *[Deploying vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/vniosoci/pages/1930067977)* topic.
- Attaching a block volume to an instance after the instance is created as explained in this topic.

Complete the following steps:

1. Deploy a vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance as described in *[Deploying the NIOS Virtual Appliance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/vniosoci/pages/35380340)*.
2. Create a block volume:
  1. In the navigation menu, click **Storage** > **Block Storage**.
  2. In the *Block Volumes* list, click **Create Block Volume*****.***
  3. In the *Create block volume* dialog box, complete the following:
    - **Name**: Enter a name for the volume.
    - **Create in compartment**: Choose a compartment in which to create the block volume.
    - **Availability domain**: Select the availability domain for the block volume.
    - **Volume size and performance**: Select **Custom** and specify a size in the **Volume size (in GB)** field.  
Infoblox recommends that you allocate a minimum of 250 GB of disk space for reporting storage requirements.
    - **Volume Encryption**: Select **Encrypt using Oracle-managed keys**.
  4. Click **Create block volume** and wait for the volume creation to complete.
3. Attach the block volume to the vNIOS instance:
  1. In the navigation menu, click **Compute** > **Instances **> *vNIOS instance* that you created.
  2. Under **Resources**, click **Attached block volumes**.
  3. In the *Attached block volumes* section, click **Attach block volume.**
  4. In the *Attach block volume* dialog box, complete the following:
    1. **Volume**: Select **Create volume **and from the drop-down list, choose the block volume you created.
    2. **Attachment type**: Select **Custom **>** paravirtualized**.
    3. **Access**: Select **Read/write**.
  5. Click **Attach** to attach the volume.
4. After the block volume attaches to the vNIOS instance, reboot the instance.