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NS1 with Grid
™
Package
3
Additional Benefits Include
High-availability Services: TheNS1withGridpackagerunsonthereliableInfoblox
applianceplatform,whichisdesignedfornonstopoperationinhigh-performance
networks.High-availability(HA)servicesaresupportedbybloxHA™technology—
whichusesindustry-standardVirtualRouterRedundancyProtocol(VRRP)forsub
5-secondnetworkfailover—andbloxSYNC™technologytoensurereal-timedatabase
synchronizationwithnolossorduplicationofdata.
Integrated, Zero-admin Database:TheNS1withGridpackagestoresallDNSandDHCP
dataintheintegratedbloxSDB™database,whichisbuiltintotheInfobloxNIOS™
operatingsystemsoftwareprovidedonallInfobloxappliances.ThebloxSDBdatabase
isdesignedspecicallytosupportintegratedcorenetworkservicesandprovides
unmatchedconsistencybetweenserviceandmanagementviewsofIP-address-centric
networkservicesdatawithoutcompromisingperformance.
Integrated Web GUI:TheInfobloxWebGUIallowsadministratorstodeployandmanage
theentireDNS,DHCPandIPAMinfrastructurewithjustafewmouseclicks.The
powerful,Web-basedInfobloxGUIistheonlysolutionthatmanagesallaspectsofthe
infrastructureanddata—includingsoftwareupdatesandupgrades,backupandrestore,
disasterrecoveryandallservicesanddatamanagement—withoutresortingtoclient
basedorcommand-lineinterfaces.TheInfobloxWebUImanagesallaspectsofthe
productincludingDNS,DNSSEC,DHCP,IPAMandGridmanagement,monitoringand
reporting.Wizardsandvisualtoolsareavailabletomakecongurationandmonitoring
error-free.
Integrated Management:TheNS1withGridpackageprovidespracticaloperational
efcienciesthatlowertotalcostofownership.Forexample,creatingaDHCPrange
automaticallycreatesanassociatedDNSrecord,reducingthenumberoftasksrequired
ofnetworkadministrators.
Granular, Role-based Administration:Role-basedadministrationisapowerfulway
toensurethatadministratorsareonlygivenaccesstoviewandmodifyspeciccore
networkservicesattributesconsistentwiththeirorganizationalandfunctionalrole.For
example,thismeansthataseniorDNSadministratorcouldhavetheabilitytodene
newdomainsandaddnewappliancestoaGrid,whileahelpdeskadministratormight
onlyhavetheabilitytoviewspecicsubnetsandissueIPaddressestonewdevicesby
pickingfromapre-denedlist.Infobloxhascreatedaveryscalable,yetverygranular
role-basedadministrationframework.Theframeworkprovidescustomerstheability
todelegateadministrationdowntotheobjectlevelandyetmaintainpermissionsfora
large,complexadministrationmodel.Somespecicsinclude: