Reinventing Data Center Switching Arista Software Define Cloud Networking YaJian Huang - Systems Engineering Manager APAC yj@arista.com
Arista Networks: Did You Know? Arista switches are deployed in production in 8 out of the 10 largest investment banks Arista has key production deployments in 8 out of 10 of the largest cloud operators In 2013, Arista was the #1 40GE port shipping market share leader There is a company that is innovating to address your challenges
Arista Networks Facts Founded in 2004 to build innovative DC network solution 2 nd 10GE market share leader, shipped > 2 Million 10G Ports Experienced Management and World Class Engineering Team Award Winning Products & Differentiators Breakthrough price / performance Game changing software architecture (EOS) Successful deployments in Finance, Web/Cloud, HPC, Life Sciences, Exploratory Geophysics, Government, Service Provider
Arista Executive Leadership Andy Bechtolsheim Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman Jayshree Ullal President and CEO
Evolution of Server Configuration Manual & Slow Setup 1990 s On-Demand and Automation FAST! Today + + OR 2013 Arista Networks. All rights reserved. 5
Evolution of Network Configuration Same! 2013 Arista Networks. All rights reserved. 6
Why SDN? Networks are an order of magnitude larger; automation has lagged SDN solves inflexibilities and inefficiencies that inhibit scale & automation Copyright 2013. All Rights Reserved.
What is SDN? Purist View a strict separation of control plane and data plane SDN = Openflow Pragmatic View a network architecture designed to be programmed by high-level languages and APIs SDN = Programmability A Common View SDN = Network Virtualization
Customers Challenges Addressed via SDN Network Slicing Network Flow Management & Visibility Cloud Automation Applications Agility
SDN Foundation - Arista EOS for the SDCN Proven Reliability Modular Resilient Programmable MLAG OSPF/ BGP STP Cloud Vision SysDB Third- Party Agents CLI ASIC Driver Agent ProcMgr New Agent SysDB Interface Manager Spanning Tree ASIC Drivers Standard Linux Kernel Arista EOS Virtual Machine SysDB - Central State Database Multi-process/threaded state sharing architecture Isolated Secure Reliable Self Healing Stateful Fault Containment Stateful Fault Repair Highly Available Process-Level Upgrades Feature Rich One image all products Extensible architecture enables 3rd party applications Open Programmable
EOS Programmability Application Tier OpenFlow DirectFlow python AEM Control Plane Sysdb state EAPI Mgmt Plane Python Plug-ins POSIX Data Plane BSD sockets Linux Kernel
eapi links Arista to other industry leaders best of breed Routing Protocols Interface Manager CLI Spanning Tree ASIC Drivers LED XMPP Client vcenter API KVM - Virtual Machine sysdb - Central State Database eapi Stock 2.6.31 x64 Linux Kernel EOS - Extensible Network O/S
SDN Foundation - Universal Scale-out DC Network Architecture IP Storage Cloud Web 2.0 Legacy Applications Big Data VM Farms VDI
Arista Networks: The Best SDCN Portfolio Extensible Operating System Single Binary Image 7048T 48-port Data Center Class Gigabit Ethernet Switch 7050 S/T/Q 1/10G & 10/40G Data Center Switches 10G SFP+ / 10G-T Dense Virtualization 10GbE / 40GbE DC 7150S & 7124FX Ultra Low Latency 24,52,64-port SFP + 1G-40GbE Switches Intelligent Application Switch 7050X & 7250X Dense Low Latency 32 & 64-port QSFP+ 96xSFP+/8xQSFP+ Advanced Virtualization Scale-out Visibility 7300X High Density, Modular System supporting up to 512 40GbE Cloud Scale Leaf and Spine 10GbE-40GbE 7500E Lossless, High Density, Modular Switching System supporting up to 1152 Wirespeed 10GbE Ports Spine 10-40-100GbE
How much SDN can save you money? One incident could save you: $896,000 vs. $168,000 $728,000 Legacy Way: 160 minutes $896,000 Arista Way: 30 minutes $168,000
Arista Networks - Built for the SDCN Virtualization Friendly Integrates with existing workflows Virtualization Infrastructure DevOps Monitoring Non-Blocking Zero Touch Provisioning eapi Open API Traditional management CLI SNMP Hypervisor agnostic No rip-n-replace One to one million virtual machines ESX OVS KVM Hyper-V
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