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title: "About Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure"
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<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a virtual appliance designed for deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, an Infrastructure as a Service that is offered by Oracle. The virtual appliance enables you to deploy large, robust, manageable, and cost-effective Infoblox Grids. </span>

<span style="color: #000000">The NIOS virtual appliance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure functions as a hardware virtual machine guest on the Linux system. It provides integrated, secure, and easy-to-manage DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), IPAM (IP address management), and reporting services. It also provides a framework for integrating all components of the modular Infoblox solution. For more information about the Infoblox Grid, DNS, IPAM, and reporting refer to the </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://docs.infoblox.com/)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

You can deploy an Infoblox vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance as a virtual cloud member or a Grid Master tied to an on-premise (non-cloud) NIOS Grid, or a virtual standalone Grid member. For the list of appliances that vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports, see *[vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure X6 series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488617549/vNIOS+for+Oracle+Cloud+Infrastructure+X6+series)* and *[vNIOS for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure X5 series](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/vniosspec/1488552047/vNIOS+for+Oracle+Cloud+Infrastructure+X5+Series)*.