Migration from Infoblox to EfficientIP

EfficientIP adds security, innovative functionality and ease of use to your DDI solution. Many Infoblox DDI customers globally have chosen to replace their legacy DDI solutions and switch to the EfficientIP SOLIDserver product.

Switching Technologies Has Never Been Easier

According to Gartner’s DDI report, customers typically cite the EfficientIP products as being cost-effective, easy to use, and flexible/customizable. Most customers who migrated from Infoblox did so for several reasons, including:

• Simplified management of IPAM, DHCP and DNS, including Linux functions, thanks to one single intuitive web interface
• Softer end-of-life policy, with no forced hardware replacements
• Lower TCO with advanced reporting and other features offered on same box at no additional charge for hardware or software
• No hard database capacity limitations
• Improved agility for stress-free upgrades, mass data management and policy enforcement
• Enhanced security offering to prevent data exfiltration and protect against all attack types
• Fairer licensing costs, to help prepare for new technologies such as cloud and virtualization

EfficientIP professional services team smoothly replace your Infoblox DDI products, showing you how to do more with your new solutions in order to maximize value from them.

The EfficientIP team includes several experts who have extensive previous experience in selling and implementing Infoblox solutions, thus are able to guarantee seamless data migration. No other vendor has the technical resources and expertise of the DDI space like EfficientIP.

Highlights

• Unchallenged expertise in switching from Infoblox, using our proven, repeatable process
• EfficientIP guarantees seamless, risk-free data migration
• Migration to EfficientIP brings lower TCO with enhanced features and adaptive security
• EfficientIP enhances your ROI via a soft end-of-life policy
• SOLIDserver is cost-effective, easy to use, and very flexible/customizable
• Moving to EfficientIP ensures sustainability and future-readiness for new technologies

Proven Repeatable Process for Migrating from Infoblox

Trusted advisors are obligatory to help you migrate seamlessly to a new DDI solution, ensuring constant uptime of mission critical DDI services. Using our proven, repeatable Infoblox migration process, EfficientIP excels at this.

During Project Migration, the key activities conducted to control and track the project are:

Project Tracking

Tracking the project tasks and deliverables against the target completion dates detailed in the Project Plan.

Risk Management

Identifying the known risks, registering them into the Risk Log and taking the necessary actions to either reduce, avoid, accept or mitigate the risk.

Issue Management

Identifying issues that arise and taking the necessary corrective action.

Change Control

Identifying any changes to the scope of the project and ensuring that they follow the Change Management Process.

Project Planning

Maintain the Project Plan in line with timescale variances resulting from any issues.

Cost Control

Tracking the costs of the project against those detailed the Contract, ensuring that they get allocated to the correct budget, i.e. Customer or EfficientIP.

Migrating Your Data Is Risk-Free, Taking Only Five Smooth Steps

Infoblox migration to EfficientIP is straightforward, requiring just five simple steps to migrate your data.

Step 1: Extract Data

Extract data from the existing Infoblox environment.

Step 2: Obtain DNS and DHCP Configurations

Obtain DNS and DHCP configurations from the Infoblox environment.

Step 3: Perform Zone Transfers to Get DNS Data

Perform zone transfers to get DNS data from the Infoblox DNS server.

Step 4: Convert IPAM and Metadata to CSV

Convert IPAM and metadata to CSV.

Step 5: Import Data

Import the converted data into EfficientIP.

IPAM, DNS and DHCP Migration Components

Infoblox and EfficientIP DDI solutions are comprised essentially of three components: IPAM, DNS and DHCP.

IP Address Management — IPAM

IPAM data structure of both Infoblox and EfficientIP is hierarchical. Properties from the upper tiers flow to the lower. Properties at the lower layers can either be left the same as the upper or customized.

DNS

Both Infoblox and EfficientIP use ISC BIND with modifications. DNS server configuration can be imported from the Infoblox named.conf file. Resource records are imported via zone transfer from the Infoblox DNS server.

DHCP

Infoblox DHCP and EfficientIP DHCP both utilize ISC DHCP and add customizations. The offerings from each vendor are RFC compliant.

Migration from Infoblox to EfficientIP DHCP is performed by direct import of the Infoblox DHCP configuration file, dhcpd.conf format.

Customer Feedback on a Seamless Infoblox Migration

“The work performed to get NDOC off of our old, unsupported solution and on the EfficientIP platform was simply amazing. The IT Chief forwarded a note to our upper management, praising the essentially invisible transition that occurred within what is, without a doubt, the most critical system we have.”
Daniel Erlendson, IT Manager – Nevada Department of Corrections

About EfficientIP

As one of the world’s fastest growing DDI vendors, EfficientIP helps organizations drive business efficiency through agile, secure and reliable network infrastructures.

Our unified management framework for DNS-DHCP-IPAM, DDI, and network configurations ensures end-to-end visibility, consistency control and advanced automation.

Additionally, our unique 360° DNS security solution protects data confidentiality and application access from anywhere at any time.

Companies rely on us to help control the risks and reduce the complexity of challenges they face with modern key IT initiatives such as cloud applications, virtualization, and mobility.

Institutions across a variety of industries and government sectors worldwide rely on our offerings to assure business continuity, reduce operating costs and increase the management efficiency of their network and security teams.