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

You have the option to configure the storage in one of the following ways: 500 GB for NIOS versions 9.0.6 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 Proxmox Trinzic Appliances 

The table below lists the models of vNIOS for Proxmox appliances supported in NIOS 9.0.6 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)*.

> ⚠️ **Note**
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ Some of the appliances in the table below have more than one value in the **vCPUs** and **Memory Allocation** columns. This means that you have the flexibility to select between a high or low CPU specification and a high or low memory specification. These specifications have been thoroughly tested and qualified for each Trinzic X6 series model. Each of these specifications is capable of functioning effectively either as a Grid Master, Grid Master Candidate, or as a Grid member.
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ When making your selection, evaluate your business requirements alongside the operational demands that the appliance will need to meet. Choose the specification that best fits these requirements while also adhering to your budgetary constraints to ensure financial viability. However, if you are using Threat Protection/DNS Infrastructure Protection (in NIOS 9.0.8 or later), see the specifications at [https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/vniosspec/pages/1488715947](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/vniosspec/pages/1488715947).

| **Trinzic Virtual Appliance** | **Appliance Configuration** | **Overall** **Disk** **(GB)** | **vCPUs** | **Memory** **Allocation**  
**(GB)** | **Supported** **as** **Grid** **Master** **and** **Grid** **Master** **Candidate** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IB-V926 | Small | 500 | 4 | 32 | Yes |
| Large | 500 | 8 | 32 | Yes |
| IB-V1516 | Small | 500 | 6 | 64 | Yes |
| Large | 500 | 12 | 64 | Yes |
| IB-V1526 | Small | 500 | 8 | 64 | Yes |
| Large | 500 | 16 | 64 | Yes |
| IB-V2326 | Small | 500 | 12 | 128 | Yes |
| Large | 500 | 20 | 192 | Yes |
| IB-V4126 | Small | 500 | 16 | 256 | Yes |
| Large | 500 | 32 | 384 | Yes |

# vNIOS for Proxmox Reporting Appliances 

The following table lists the supported vNIOS appliances for reporting:

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

# vNIOS for Proxmox Network Discovery Appliances

The following table lists the supported Network Insight models of vNIOS for Proxmox appliances:

| **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 Proxmox IB-FLEX Appliances

The following table lists the supported IB-FLEX appliances. For more information about IB-FLEX, see 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-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:

- To maintain high performance on your NIOS virtual appliances and to avoid not having enough resources to service all NIOS virtual appliances, **do not** oversubscribe physical resources on the virtualization host. Required memory, CPU, and disk resources must be adequately allocated for each NIOS virtual appliance that is running on the virtualization host.
- For the Trinzic X6 models, Infoblox recommends that you use SSDs for storage for better performance.
- The performance of a vNIOS VM instance deployed on a Proxmox host is impacted by the huge page sizes configured on the instance and on the host, and also by the services enabled on the instance.  
Although, huge page sizes configured on the host and the VM instance are independent of each other, the following behavior is observed:
  - When the host is configured to allocate huge pages to the instance, performance issues are reduced as it minimizes disk fragmentation, which otherwise has a significant impact on the performance. However, if the host is over provisioned with VM instances, performance of the VM will be impacted. To avoid it, refer to the best practices recommended by the Hypervisor.
  - When the host is not configured to allocate huge pages to the instance, performance issues can elevate due to increased possibility of disk fragmentation, which often leads to non-contiguous physical memory blocks being allocated to the VM. In some cases, this may also lead to memory allocation failures.