Arista UNIVERSAL CLOUD NETWORK AND ECOSYSTEM User Manual

CLOUD
NETWORKING
PORTFOLIO

UNIVERSAL CLOUD NETWORK AND ECOSYSTEM

Arista Networks is the leader in building software driven

cloud networks for today’s datacenter, cloud and campus

environments. Arista delivers the most ecient, reliable and

high performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based

on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G platforms delivered with an

extensible operating system – Arista EOS®. Arista EOS is built on

an open, programmable, and resilient state-sharing architecture

that delivers maximum system uptime, reduces CAPEX and

OPEX by simplifying IT operations and enables business

agility. Arista EOS software oers programmability at all layers,

including eAPI, EOS SDK, Linux, DevOps integration, and broad

scripting support. Arista CloudVision® software extends the EOS

state-based architecture to a network-wide scope with NetDB, a

platform for workow automation, workload orchestration, and

advanced visibility. CloudVision’s open framework leverages

modern APIs and state streaming as the basis for cognitive

analytics, including machine learning and articial intelligence,

helping to diagnose and remediate network issues across both

wired and wireless networks.

CORPORATE
HEADQUARTERS

5453 Great America Parkway,
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

www.arista.com

General Inquiries

Email: [e-mail]

US & North America Sales:
[e-mail]

Latin America Sales:
[e-mail]

Europe, Middle East & Africa Sales:
[e-mail]

Asia-Pacic Sales:
[e-mail]

Japan Sales:
[e-mail]

Private Cloud Public Cloud

Best-of-Breed 3rd party Technology Integration

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TAP Aggregation

Change Control

Routing

High Frequency

Virtualization IP Storage Big Data

Trading

Universal Cloud Network Architecture

Zero Touch Provisioning

Media &

Entertainment

Content Delivery

cEOS

cEOS

Network

vEOS

vEOS

API and

AI Driven

Analytics

Automation

Agile Work-X

Available

Architecture

API and AI Driven Integration & Automation

TracersState Streaming Analytics

EOS

CloudVision

CloudVision Portal Cong Management

Agile Workloads, Workows, or Workstreams

API

SDK Tools

EOS Resilience & Scale Packaging vEOS / cEOS

Universal Cloud Network Architecture

VPC A VPC B VPC C VPC D VPC E VPC F

Open Architecture

VPC A VPC B

vEOS

TCO

3x

Savings with faster

migration and integration

between public and

private cloud

10x

OPEX savings using

single pane of glass for

network automation and

analytics into public and

private cloud

5x

Cost savings using same

operational model for

public and private cloud

ARISTA  THE PLATFORM FOR SOFTWARE DRIVEN CLOUD NETWORKING

Controller

• Fully programmable platforms allow rapid, automated
deployment and provisioning

• Open SDK/APIs for easy integration with third-party and
customer extensions

• Single-OS consistency across use cases for every place in
the cloud

• Proven solutions and reference designs with a broad
best-in-class ecosystem of partners

SDN Controllers and

Security

VMware NSX,

OVSDB Controllers, Checkpoint,

Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks

DevOps / Network

Services

Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes,

Terraform

ANY CLOUD API

Orchestration/

IT Operations Tools

OpenStack, HPE

VMware vCenter, ServiceNow

Big Data

Analytics

Splunk Enterprise,

VMware Log Insight

Hybrid Cloud

AWS, Microsoft Azure,

Oracle Cloud Inrfrastructure,

Google Cloud Platform

ARCHITECTURE

High Availability

• Open, predictable and ecient network designs with only modern, open and
standards-based protocols using ECMP & VXLAN

• Advanced hitless upgrade/update and auto recovery features with 100% active­active utilization of all bandwidth, resources and links

Scalability

• A state sharing, highly resilient, multi-process architecture that enhances reliability,
visibility and scalability

• Supports networks from a few nodes to millions of VMs, containers and end-points at
Internet scale and with linear expansion

Eciency

• Designed to utilize advancing developments in merchant silicon hardware, ensuring
a path for customers to new advances in speed, scale and eciencies with proven
investment protection

FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSAL CLOUD NETWORKING

•

EOS – Open and Extensible Networking Software

• State sharing, highly resilient, multi-process architecture that enhances
reliability, visibility, serviceability at any scale

• Built on state-of-the-art NetDB process isolation architecture and
continuous development model to enable ease of customer extension,
high stability and rapid delivery of advanced features

• At its core, a native unmodied Linux kernel and runtime supporting
open APIs, Python, Go, JSON eAPI/SDK, OpenFlow/DirectFlow, AEM event
notication, Docker runtime, Linux tools, etc.

• Packaged as bundled EOS on Arista switches, containerized EOS, or
virtualized EOS – for any production or simulation use case

AUTOMATION

Cloud Automation for Everyone

• CloudVision provides a turnkey automation hub for cong and image
management, change control simplication, operations compliance, and much
more

Zero Touch Provisioning

• Reduce operating costs and time to production with ZTP by eliminating human
errors during rack expansion or replacement

• Automate infrastructure scale-out using standards-based mechanisms that are
customizable and scripted at any scale

DevOps Integration

• Integrate development and operations workows with DevOps and CI/CD tools
including Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, and others

• Automate network and server management with access to any virtualized,
containerized or Linux tool running natively on EOS

ARISTA EOS

CloudVision – A Platform for Cloud Automation and Visibility

• Extends EOS state-based architecture to

a network-wide model for provisioning,

orchestration, and telemetry

EOS

EOSEOS

EOS

CloudVision

EOSEOS

EOS

EOSEOSEOS

®

EOSEOSEOS

ANALYTICS

Telemetry

• Access network-wide control plane and data plane telemetry in realtime
and for historical forensic troubleshooting purposes

• Visibility extends to hosts with endpoint inventory and behavior modeling

Tracers

• Enable real-time visibility and automation for highly dynamic, virtualized,
containerized, big data and bare metal workloads

• Correlate network health and reachability information with workload
placements in the public, private and hybrid cloud

TAP Aggregation and Advanced Mirroring

• Get precision access to raw and ltered packet data anywhere and
anytime at industry-leading scale with both in-band and out-of-band
capture, replication and analysis capabilities

• Generate and analyze high rate sFlow metadata for macro-level visibility
into performance trends and security threats

• Unied control point for third party overlay controllers,

orchestration systems, and security platforms

• Consistent operations across a broad scope, including campus +

datacenter and wired + wireless networks

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