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title: "Deploying a Reporting Instance in Proxmox VE"
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Use the Infoblox reporting solution to automate the process of collecting, analyzing, and presenting core network service data to help you plan network management efficiently and reduce the risks associated with network outages.

A vNIOS reporting virtual appliance is dedicated to reporting only. You cannot add licenses to run additional services such as DNS and DHCP on a reporting appliance. 

To deploy a vNIOS instance as a reporting appliance, first, deploy an instance as explained in *[Deploying a vNIOS Instance in Proxmox VE](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/vniosproxmox/pages/1861812246)**,* and then attach a secondary disk to the instance.

To attach a secondary disk, complete the following steps:

1. In the Proxmox Virtual Environment console, navigate to the virtual machine that you created.
2. To attach a secondary disk:
  1. On the **Hardware** tab, click the **Add** drop-down list and select **Hard Disk**.
  2. In the *Add Hard Disk* dialog box, define the following settings:
    1. **BusDevice**: Select **1** for SCSI.
    2. **Storage**: From the drop-down list, select the storage where the disk must be saved.
    3. **Disk size (GiB)**: Specify **250**.
  3. Click **Add**.  
The disk is displayed as *Hard Disk (scsi1)*.
  4. Update the boot order as follows:
    1. On the **Options** tab, double-click **Boot Order**.
    2. In the *Edit Boot Order* dialog box, enable **scsi1** and drag it to the second position after the primary disk scsi0.
    3. Verify that all network devices are enabled and that ide2 is disabled. Click **OK**.
3. To start the virtual machine, click the **Start** button located at the top of the virtual machine panel.  
The virtual machine takes several minutes to start.