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July 16, 2026 | Application Traffic Management, Network & Cloud Automation, Security
Modern infrastructures are a foundation of key IT transformation initiatives: hybrid multicloud, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, zero-touch networks, mobility, IoT, AI-driven operations, and more. These global trends add extreme pressure on company network services, regardless of size, complexity, and business focus. To simplify management, enhance the efficiency of your operations, and accelerate time to service, a cost-effective, easy-to-use DNS-DHCP-IPAM (DDI) solution has become a must-have.
The EfficientIP SOLIDserver™ DDI solution is designed to deliver highly scalable, high-performance, and robust DNS-DHCP-IPAM services. It provides vital benefits for the reliability, resiliency, and security of your network foundations. Being hardware, cloud, and orchestrator agnostic, the solution benefits from smart DDI automation to simplify and accelerate the deployment of new services and reduce operational costs.
The solution features a wide range of software appliance models to meet various requirements, from small branch offices to the largest enterprises.
SOLIDserver ensures dynamic, integrated, and centralized management of IPAM with DNS and DHCP services in a single automated process, ensuring the highest level of quality and efficiency. Any change made to the IP structure is automatically populated and pushed to the DNS and DHCP services, removing the chance for error and dramatically reducing time and effort for network administrators as three tasks are turned into one.
SOLIDserver DDI considerably simplifies the deployment of workflows and ensures proper synchronization between all repositories for quickly enabling access to newly deployed applications, as well as facilitating M2M (Machine to Machine) communications. The resulting configuration consistency increases overall network security, as it prevents unused resources from being accessible by persons wishing to take advantage of exposed legacy data.
As an example, it is possible to create a /24 subnet, in one operation, with IP ranges allocated to DHCP services. All configurations will be carried out automatically by SOLIDserver, which will configure DNS and DHCP services according to specified options.
SOLIDserver offers a unique and more accurate way to access your data with a transverse view, offering unlimited search criteria that overcome hierarchical tree dependencies, thus enabling unrestricted data visibility.
SOLIDserver is designed to provide you with an extended API and all the necessary tools to make your private cloud service orchestration easier. Embedded DDI orchestration processes are easily tunable through GUI, allowing you to extend default behaviors according to your policies while masking the complexity of driving multi-vendor/hybrid cloud/multi-tenant DNS/DHCP environments. You gain in service deployment agility while increasing the visibility on your cloud platform, enhancing your provisioning process.
SOLIDserver ensures overall consistency of DNS-DHCP server configurations and IPAM data in order to eliminate all risks of conflicting configurations, duplicate IP addresses or subnet overlaps.
SOLIDserver is a comprehensive appliance-based solution to manage the global lifecycle of IP addresses, from their provisioning and their organization to their deployment and monitoring down to their retirement. EfficientIP provides a global IPAM solution for critical core network services, offering the ability to model from simple to very complex IP plans.
Unlike spreadsheets or basic IPAM offerings, SOLIDserver™ DDI brings you a comprehensive, centralized, and accurate repository of all your IP resources, network objects, and cloud instances on which you can base your overall network resource management and automation. Leveraging the discovery capabilities of NetChange IPLocator for on-premises devices and Cloud Observer for cloud resources, EfficientIP’s IPAM provides comprehensive visibility into network assets, including their data and metadata, from a single pane of glass. Built-in data reconciliation automatically compares data between IPAM and NetChange IPLocator or Cloud Observer, allowing network teams to instantly see a list of inconsistencies and proceed with single or multiple remediation options suggested from the management interface. This makes it easier to control network changes, facilitate network validation, and simplify network compliance, while improving data quality in IPAM, making it an effective NSoT and a solid foundation for supporting end-to-end network automation.
For cloud deployments, this cloud-agnostic IP address management process maintains consistency between overlapping IP spaces across multiple cloud providers a company may have. It gives the IT team a unique repository and global management of the IP address system to make multi-cloud effective, secure, and well-managed.
The key to success in deploying IP resources is having users comply with best practices. This can be easily achieved by embedding your own IPAM policies using templates and rules while exploiting object inheritance. This can be further enhanced by automating triggered actions.
You, therefore, overcome the complexity of IPAM-related processes and deliver a user-friendly application guiding users through automated policy enforcement..
Able to handle millions of IP addresses, and supporting IPv6 transition plus IPv4/IPv6 coexistence, EfficientIP’s market-leading IPAM makes sure your business can grow without hindrance.
Structure administration delegation according to your organizational situation, to bring users’ responsibilities in line with rights delegation.
DNS is a mission-critical network service. Without it, every other service, utility, and application simply cannot function. This makes DNS an obvious target for cyber attacks.
Every DNS outage is costly in terms of decreased productivity and lost revenue. EfficientIP, therefore, offers the SOLIDserver suite of robust DNS appliances which address security, reliability, and stability, delivered with end-to-end automation.
The EfficientIP DDI solution simplifies the design, deployment, and management of vital multi-vendor DNS and DHCP services through a policy-driven approach. SmartArchitecture offers templates of DNS architectures that automatically apply best practices to configure the initial server setup (DNS Master-Slave, Multi-Master DNS, Stealth DNS, DNS Load Sharing), and then manage the architecture as a single, integrated deployment.
EfficientIP’s SmartArchitecture delivers flexible DNS failover designs, for local and/or remote sites, enabling automated deployments, ensuring services availability, and optimizing performance:
SmartArchitecture ensures reliable and secure DNS services, which is the foundation of your network infrastructure. Deploying DNS and DHCP services is now fast, easy, and risk-free.
SOLIDserver IP Address Management solution (IPAM) integrates seamlessly with DNS servers from multiple vendors, enabling unified, automated, and policy-driven management for higher security, reliability, and scalability of the network infrastructure. Through DNS overlay management, organizations can centrally govern existing services without replacing their current deployments. The web-based GUI enables centralized or individual management of SOLIDserver appliances as well as third-party DNS services, including Microsoft, open-source DNS services such as BIND, AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, and Azure DNS. Managing multi-vendor environments from a single interface improves visibility, reduces configuration errors, saves time, and protects existing infrastructure investments.
DNS Guardian monitors DNS cache-recursive activity at the transaction level to get end-to-end visibility on resolutions for a complete understanding of the traffic. This real-time, context-aware, behavioral threat detection based on advanced analytics and DNS Transaction Inspection (DTI technology) allows you to determine specific signatures of different DNS attacks, detect data exfiltration attempts, take appropriate countermeasures, and initiate remediation actions. The solution helps ensure service continuity and protect DNS confidentiality. DNS Guardian delivers high-performing logging capabilities which can be seamlessly integrated with leading SIEM solutions such as Kibana, Splunk, or QRadar.
Hybrid DNS Engine offers 2 technologies (BIND, NSD/Unbound) within a single appliance to mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities and eliminate single points of failure.
DNS Blast is a DNS cache appliance that can support up to 17 million queries per second, allowing it to absorb extreme DDoS attacks and block weak-signal threats. The advanced security features of DNS Guardian are also incorporated.
DNS Cloud integrates Amazon Route 53 and Azure DNS, cloud DNS services. It provides you the ability to manage an in-house and cloud DNS infrastructure for public and private zones from a single management console, securing your Internet visibility.
DNS Firewall and Threat Intelligence Services detect and block malware activity, identify infected devices and prevent new attacks. They provide an up-to-date layer of defense against ever-evolving malicious domains.
DNS Client Query filtering (DNS CQF): improves client-based application access control. DNS CQF delivers network segmentation down to the individual user providing an earlier security barrier and granular filtering, enabling DNS-based client access control to vital apps and infrastructure for better application access control for a stronger security ecosystem.
DNSSEC Automation: SOLIDserver automates and simplifies the integration of DNSSEC on DNS servers, eliminating the complexity of configuration and the risks of misconfigurations.
Stealth DNS architecture set-up and configuration is quickly and easily completed without the need for any special or specific DNS expertise typically required to deploy state-of-the-art DNS architecture.
IPAM and DNS, together with the IP protocol, are the glue of the complex network that permits communication between all cloud islands. The SOLIDserver DDI appliance suite has been designed to run on all major virtualization solutions available on the market, including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox, and OpenStack. It can also run in public cloud environments on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This cloud-agnostic approach dramatically simplifies hybrid cloud strategy while lowering expenditure and improving agility.
Today’s applications use multiple infrastructure components across multi-cloud environments, making it extremely difficult to track their location. EfficientIP helps solve this by bringing a specific repository to match the enterprise ecosystem. New apps can be integrated into existing naming plans to ensure corporate policies are adhered to. The application repository can be enhanced with meta-data to match with organizational and technical information.
This application repository can be leveraged with the DNS Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) product. The result is unified management of DDI and GSLB from the same console, for enhanced application availability and performance across multiple datacenters.
The EfficientIP’s SmartArchitecture ensures DHCP services continuity through a unique approach, combining high service availability with performance. SOLIDserver supplies high availability architecture for DHCP services in active/active mode:
It enables automated deployments, ensuring services availability and optimizing performance:
SOLIDserver allows you to leverage your existing Microsoft, Linux-based, and Fortinet FortiGate DHCP infrastructures and guarantee service high availability and security while reducing operating costs. As an overlay solution, SOLIDserver unifies the management of the IP plan and existing DHCP services from a centralized interface, offering global visibility, automated administration processes, best practices enforcement, and advanced delegation capabilities.
EfficientIP has embedded intelligence in its SOLIDserver appliance to analyze DHCP request behaviors and identify inappropriate client requests to inform network administrators. SOLIDserver then prevents an interruption of DHCP services by ignoring bad requests.
The Identity Manager functionality enables connection of SOLIDserver DDI solution to external directory systems like Microsoft Active Directory in order to add data related to the users of the network in the set of managed information. By getting all the authentication events from the directory, users’ information about their sessions is automatically linked to the other IP information in the IPAM for rich automation and availability to the Infrastructure & Operations teams. This also enables automatic actions between users and applications for strengthened security, increased visibility, and improved control over the IT environment.
SOLIDserver DDI can easily be integrated into complex ecosystems through automation and the use of its rich REST API set. All information contained in the SOLIDserver can be gathered and manipulated through APIs in order to perform real-time integration in any IT system, allowing infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, ITSM, or software-defined datacenter automation (e.g. with Terraform,…).
In addition to the rich API, SOLIDserver is able to call webhooks upon the occurrence of specific events. It is also possible to push event messages into an enterprise service bus as publish/subscribe (or synchronous) actions towards other ecosystem solutions. The content of the call made can be customized with specific values depending on the nature of the event.
Observability and analysis of the SOLIDserver appliance metrics can be performed by the CNCF Prometheus solution through a native connector, helping support and capacity planning activities.
The SOLIDserver operating system is reliable, manageable, scalable, and secure. It includes all the required components and features to simplify and automate deployment and management while reducing operational costs.
To fulfill each customer’s specific needs, the EfficientIP’s suite of software appliances includes 10 models with different levels of performance for IPAM and DNS-DHCP services:
(1) SDS-50 is only available as a virtual appliance
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