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title: "vNIOS for Azure X6 Series"
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This topic lists the details of supported vNIOS appliances that can be deployed in public Azure clouds and in Azure Stack Hub.

# vNIOS Appliances for Azure Public Cloud

To achieve an optimum performance, you must select the disk type (`sku`) of a vNIOS instance as `Premium LRS`.

## vNIOS for Azure Trinzic Appliances

The below table lists the models of vNIOS for Azure 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* topic in the *[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://docs.infoblox.com/space/NIOS/35400616/NIOS)*.

> ⚠️ **Note**  
> ⚠️ The Standard_Es_v5 virtual machine sizes are supported from NIOS version 9.0.5 onwards. When deploying a VM with NIOS 9.0.5 or higher, Infoblox recommends using Standard_Es_v5 rather than Standard_E*s_v3.

| **vNIOS**   
**Appliance** | **Overall**   
**Disk** **Space**  
 **(GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory**   
**Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Size of Virtual Machine** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V926 | 500 | 4 | 32 | Standard_E4s_v3 | Yes |
| Standard_E4s_v5 |
| IB-V1516 | 500 | 8 | 64 | Standard_E8s_v3 | Yes |
| Standard_E8s_v5 |
| IB-V1526 | 500 | 16 | 128 | Standard_E16s_v3 | Yes |
| Standard_E16s_v5 |
| IB-V2326 | 500 | 20 | 160 | Standard_E20s_v3<br>Standard_E20s_v5 | Yes |
| IB-V4126 | 500 | 32 | 256 | Standard_E32s_v3 | Yes |
| Standard_E32s_v5 |

## vNIOS for Azure Reporting Appliances

The following model of vNIOS for Azure reporting appliance is supported in NIOS 8.6.2 and later releases:

| **vNIOS **  
**Reporting**  
**Appliance** | **Overall**   
**Disk** **Space**  
**(GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Size of Virtual Machine** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V5005 | 500 + user defined   
storage for reporting | User defined | User defined | User defined | No |

## vNIOS for Azure Network Discovery Appliances

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

| **vNIOS**  
**Network** **Insight** **Appliance** | **Overall** **Disk** **Space (GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation (GB)** | **Size of Virtual Machine** | **Supported as Grid Master** **and** **Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ND-V906 | 500 | 8 | 64 | Standard_E8s_v3 | No |
| Standard_E8s_v5 |
| ND-V1606 | 500 | 20 | 160 | Standard_E20s_v3 | No |
| Standard_E20s_v5 |
| ND-V2306 | 500 | 32 | 256 | Standard_E32s_v3 | No |
| Standard_E32s_v5 |
| ND-V4106 | 500 | 48 | 384 | Standard_E48s_v3 | No |
| Standard_E48s_v5 |

Note: The Esv5 virtual machine sizes are supported from NIOS version 9.0.5 onwards.

## vNIOS for Azure IB-FLEX Appliances

The following table lists the vNIOS for Azure IB-FLEX models supported from NIOS 9.0.5 and later releases. For more information about IB-FLEX, see *[Infoblox NIOS Documentation](https://infoblox-docs.refined.site/)**.*

| **NIOS** **VM** **Models** | **Overall**   
**Disk** **Space** **(GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Size of Virtual Machine** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 4 | 32 | Standard_E4s_v3 | Yes |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 8 | 64 | Standard_E8s_v3 | Yes |
| IB-FLEX | 500 | 16 | 128 | Standard_E16s_v3 | Yes |

# vNIOS Appliances for Azure Stack Hub

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ vNIOS for Azure Stack Hub appliances are available for NIOS 8.6.1 and later releases. Infoblox has validated the vNIOS appliances on Azure Stack Hub version 1.2102.28.87.

## vNIOS for Azure Stack Hub Trinzic Appliances

The following models of vNIOS for Azure Stack Hub appliances are supported in NIOS 9.0.1 and later releases:

| **vNIOS**   
**Appliance** | **Overall**   
**Disk** **Space (GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory**   
**Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Size of Virtual Machine** | **Supported as Grid Master and Grid Master Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V926 | 500 | 4 | 32 | Standard E4 v3 | Yes |
| IB-V1516 | 500 | 8 | 64 | Standard E8 v3 | Yes |
| IB-V1526 | 500 | 16 | 128 | Standard E16 v3 | Yes |

# Guidelines and Recommendations

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

- 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.
- For vNIOS virtual appliances running on versions of NIOS prior to 9.0.6, deployed from Azure MarketPlace, Infoblox recommends running the instances with Esv3 series virtual machine sizes.
- The below mentioned vNIOS appliances running on NIOS 9.0.5 or later support the following features:
  - DNS Cache Acceleration: IB-V2326, IB-V4126, and IB-FLEX appliances.
  - DNS Infrastructure Protection and dnstap: All supported Trinzic X6 and IB-FLEX appliances.
- For the new vNIOS for Azure 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 supported models.