This section discusses the native IPAM and DNS support for the various clouds.
GCP IPAM on GCP is not supported.
You can choose Infoblox for one function and some other provider for the other.
Provider ------> |
Infoblox |
NSX Advanced Load Balancer Internal |
Cloud-native |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cloud Infrastructure |
IPAM |
DNS |
IPAM |
DNS |
IPAM |
DNS |
VMware vCenter |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
OpenStack |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes (default) |
N/A (not used) |
Amazon Web Services |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes (default) |
Yes (default) |
Google Cloud Platform |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Azure (as of 18.2.5) |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes (default) |
Yes (default) |
Linux Server (bare metal) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No access cloud |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
When creating virtual services in OpenStack or AWS cloud, a separate configuration for IPAM is not needed or allowed, since the cloud configuration has support for IPAM natively in NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
When you select
Default, the cloud’s IPAM/DNS support is accepted without additional action on the part of the administrator.NSX Advanced Load Balancer supports Route 53 when AWS is the configured cloud provider.
When you select
Not Used, though the cloud supports DNS, the NSX Advanced Load Balancer does not use it.
NSX Advanced Load Balancer DNS service can be used with all these clouds.
IPAM and DNS Provider (Infoblox)
The Controller integrates with the Infoblox RESTful Web API (WAPI) for IPAM and DNS services.
These API calls are initiated by the Controller and directed to the Infoblox Grid Master IP address, or virtual IP address (VIP), if has been deployed in a HA pair. This integration enables the NSX Advanced Load Balancer to automate the allocation of IP addresses as well as the creation and deletion of host objects in DNS as new virtual services are created/deleted in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer environment.
Ensure that all interested subnets and domain names (zones) have been configured in the Infoblox server for consumption by NSX Advanced Load Balancer. When configuring Infoblox DNS and IPAM profiles, it is also possible to be selective as shown below.
Infoblox IPAM and DNS profiles can be independently defined and configured. For a given cloud, the permitted Infoblox combinations are:
IPAM Provider |
DNS Provider |
|---|---|
Infoblox IPAM |
None, Infoblox DNS, NSX Advanced Load Balancer internal |
Any |
Infoblox DNS |
