Infoblox Program

Elastic Scaling with dynamic licences

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Kind: Dynamic licensing
Term: Per licence term
Aliases: Elastic Scaling
Definition: Use of NIOS dynamic (pool) licences to automatically pre-provision and deploy vNIOS instances, for example in a cloud management platform or AWS VPC.
Commercial rules: Licences are installed in the Grid licence pool in advance, allocated when vNIOS appliances join and released when they are removed.
Applies to: NIOS DDI, vNIOS
Related metrics: NIOS dynamic (pool) licence

Evidence 3

Dynamic licences need the Grid Master's licence pool container UID

"The `show license_pool_container` command displays the license UID that is required when obtaining dynamic licenses for vNIOS virtual appliances."

show license_pool_containerNIOS show license_pool_containerRetrieved 2026-10-12

Dynamic NIOS licences float in a Grid-wide pool and return when an appliance is removed

"When you remove a vNIOS appliance from your Grid, the applicable licenses are automatically released back to the license pool."

NIOS Managing Licenses, Managing Dynamic LicensesNIOS Managing Licenses (8.5)Retrieved 2026-10-12

Pool licences are allocated up to the aggregate installed count and are lost on factory reset

"When you restore or perform a factory reset operation, you will lose the existing dynamic licenses."

NIOS Managing Licenses, Managing Dynamic LicensesNIOS Managing Licenses (8.5)Retrieved 2026-10-12