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title: "vNIOS for KVM X6 Series"
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This section lists the supported vNIOS for KVM X6 series appliances and their specifications.

You have the option to configure the storage in one of the following ways: 500 GB for virtual appliances running on NIOS versions 9.0.1 and later or a value between 150 GB and 2.5 TB configured during the first boot if the vNIOS instances are set up with resizable images.

# vNIOS for KVM Trinzic Appliances

The below table lists the Trinzic X6 models of vNIOS for KVM appliances supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later. These models support the cloud platform feature. To use the feature, you must install the Cloud Platform license. For more information, refer to the *Managing Licenses in NIOS 9.0.1 and later* topic in the *[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/NIOS/35400616/NIOS)*.

| **vNIOS Appliance** | **Overall Disk (GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation (GB)** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V926 | 500 | 8 | 32 | Yes |
| IB-V1516 | 500 | 12 | 64 | Yes |
| IB-V1526 | 500 | 16 | 64 | Yes |
| IB-V2326 | 500 | 20 | 192 | Yes |
| IB-V4126 | 500 | 32 | 384 | Yes |

# vNIOS for KVM Reporting Appliances

The following table lists the supported vNIOS appliances for reporting:

| **vNIOS Reporting Appliance** | **Overall Disk (GB)** | **Minimum Disk Space Required** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation (GB)** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V5005 | User defined | User defined | User defined | User defined | No |

# vNIOS for KVM Network Discovery Appliances

The following models of vNIOS for KVM appliances are supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later:

| **Network Insight Virtual Appliance** | **Overall Disk (GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation (GB)** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ND-V906 | 500 | 8 | 32 | No |
| ND-V1606 | 500 | 16 | 64 | No |
| ND-V2306 | 500 | 20 | 192 | No |
| ND-V4106 | 500 | 32 | 384 | No |

# vNIOS for KVM IB-FLEX Appliances

The following table lists the supported vNIOS for KVM. For more information about IB-FLEX, see the *[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://infoblox-docs.refined.site/)*.

| **vNIOS **  
**Appliance** | **Overall Disk **  
**(GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 4 | 32 | Yes |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 8 | 64 | Yes |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 16 | 128 | Yes |

# Guidelines and Recommendations

When choosing a vNIOS appliance, consider the following key points:

- For the new vNIOS for KVM models supported from NIOS 9.0.1 onwards, Infoblox recommends that you use SSDs for storage for better performance. See the tables in this topic for the supported models.
- The specified Trinzic X6 series appliances running on NIOS 9.0.2 or later support the following features:
  - Virtual Advanced DNS Protection: All supported appliances of Trinzic X6 series.
  - Virtual DNS Cache Acceleration: IB-V2326 and IB-V4126 appliances.