EP03- Arista software Overview

Summary

In this session, host Vij discusses Arista's innovative approach to software-defined networking with its Extensible Operating System (EOS). Arista offers high-performance, reliable, and efficient network architectures for data centers and cloud environments. EOS supports various deployment scenarios with cloud, virtual, and on-premises images, emphasizing automation, DevOps integration, and cloud automation. Arista's software excels in scalability, efficiency, and advanced networking features, including telemetry and CMP equal-cost multipathing. CloudVision, Arista's global monitoring software, provides unified visibility and control across hybrid cloud environments, enhancing network services and security with AI-driven analytics.

Takeaways

• 🌟 Arista is a leader in building software-defined cloud networking for data centers and campus environments.
• 🚀 Arista delivers high-performance Universal Network architecture and cloud-based network architecture with support for various speeds like 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, and 100G.
• 📚 Arista's Extensible Operating System (EOS) is a single image unlike Cisco's multiple IOS and NX-OS images.
• 🔍 EOS has three types of images: C for cloud-based, V for virtual environments, and E for on-premises environments.
• 🔑 Arista's architectural approach emphasizes high availability, scalability, and efficiency in automation.
• 🛠️ Arista software supports CI/CD pipelines, DevOps integration, zero touch provisioning, and cloud automation.
• 🔬 It offers advanced features for analytics and monitoring, such as telemetry traces, T aggregator, and advanced mirroring.
• 🌐 Arista supports CMP equal cost load balancing, VXLAN for availability and scalability, and can manage millions of VMs or container applications.
• 💡 Efficiency is achieved through advanced silicon hardware development, ensuring speed, scalability, and investment protection.
• 🌐 Arista's universal cloud networking is based on a Linux OS and supports both cloud and on-premises or virtual environments.
• 🔮 CloudVision is Arista's global monitoring software, offering a single pane of glass for managing hybrid cloud environments and providing real-time analytics and automation.

Q & A

What is the main focus of the session in the provided transcript?

The session focuses on how Arista uses its software to innovate in the field of networking, particularly in the context of software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud environments.

What is Arista's position in the networking industry?

Arista is a leader in building software-defined cloud networking for data centers, cloud, and campus environments.

What does Arista deliver in terms of networking architecture?

Arista delivers efficient, reliable, and high-performance Universal Network architecture or cloud-based network architecture, supporting various speeds such as 10 gig, 25 gig, 40 gig, 50 gig, or 100 Gig.

What is the significance of Arista's EOS (Extensible Operating System)?

EOS is Arista's operating system that is designed to be highly available, scalable, and efficient, supporting automation and various types of images for different environments.

What are the three types of images that Arista's EOS usually provides?

The three types of images are C for cloud-based extensible image, V for virtual environment base, and E for on-premises environment base.

How does Arista's software support automation and DevOps integration?

Arista's software is capable of utilizing CI/CD pipelines, DevOps integration, zero-touch provisioning, and cloud automation for various environments.

What advanced features does Arista's software support for analytics and monitoring?

Arista's software supports telemetry traces, T aggregator, advanced mirroring, and other features for analytics and monitoring.

What does Arista offer in terms of hardware efficiency and investment protection?

Arista offers advanced silicon hardware that ensures speed, scalability, and efficiency, along with proven investment protection.

What is the significance of Arista's use of NestDB for networking processes?

NestDB is utilized by Arista for advanced networking processes such as BGP, SSU, API processes, and routing, providing a robust platform for open software integration.

What is CloudVision and how does it benefit Arista's customers?

CloudVision is Arista's universal cloud solution that offers monitoring, automation, and analytics for on-premises, private, and public cloud deployments, providing a single pane of glass for managing infrastructure.

What advantages does Arista's software offer over other vendors in terms of deployment and image types?

Arista's software offers a universal approach with a single type of image that can be used across different environments, unlike other vendors that may offer multiple types of images for different products.

Outlines

00:00

🌐 Arista's Software-Defined Networking Innovations

In this session, the host, Vij, discusses how Arista leverages its software to revolutionize networking. Arista is recognized for its leadership in creating software-defined networking solutions for data centers and cloud or campus environments. The company offers a Universal Network architecture that is efficient, reliable, and high-performing, supporting various speeds from 10 Gig to 100 Gig. Unlike Cisco, which offers multiple operating systems, Arista uses a single, extensible operating system (EOS) with three types of images tailored for different environments: cloud, virtual, and on-premises. The EOS is designed for high availability, scalability, and efficiency, supporting automation, DevOps integration, and cloud automation. It also supports advanced features like telemetry traces and advanced mirroring. Arista's architecture can handle millions of VMs or container applications and utilizes advanced silicon hardware for speed and efficiency, ensuring investment protection. The session also mentions Arista's use of NestDB for advanced networking functions, emphasizing the company's commitment to open software integration.

05:00

🔍 Cloud Vision: Arista's Universal Monitoring Software

The second paragraph delves into Arista's Cloud Vision, a universal monitoring software that serves as a single pane of glass for managing Arista devices across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments. Similar to Cisco's ACI and Juniper's Mist, Cloud Vision integrates with APIs and AI for analytics, automation, and ensuring the availability of the network architecture. It claims to expedite migration and integration between public and private clouds by 3x and offers 10x savings through a unified management approach. Cloud Vision supports configuration automation, infrastructure upgrades without issues, and provides real-time telemetry and analytics. The host also mentions that Arista's software provides SDN-based control and security, DevOps and network services orchestration, big data analytics, and hybrid integration capabilities. The session concludes with a teaser for future discussions on Arista's command line interface, troubleshooting, and lab explorations.

Keywords

💡Arista

Arista refers to Arista Networks, a company specializing in cloud networking solutions for data centers, cloud, and campus environments. It is a leader in building software-defined networking and is central to the video's theme of network innovation. The script mentions Arista's role in delivering high-performance network architectures and its unique approach to software development for networking devices.

💡Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

SDN is a network architecture that centralizes network intelligence and control within a software application, allowing for more flexible and programmable network management. In the video, SDN is highlighted as a key innovation by Arista, enabling the creation of efficient, scalable, and automated network systems.

💡Extensible Operating System (EOS)

EOS stands for Extensible Operating System, which is Arista's network operating system. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable to various network environments. The script explains that EOS supports different types of images for cloud, virtual, and on-premises environments, emphasizing its role in Arista's innovative approach to networking.

💡High-Performance Universal Network Architecture

This term refers to the advanced network design that Arista provides, capable of handling high-speed data transfer rates such as 10 gig, 25 gig, 40 gig, 50 gig, or 100 Gig. The video script uses this term to illustrate the capabilities of Arista's networking solutions in terms of efficiency and reliability.

💡Automation

Automation in the context of the video pertains to the ability of Arista's software to streamline network management tasks without manual intervention. The script mentions features like zero-touch provisioning and the use of CI/CD pipelines, which are integral to the automation of network operations.

💡CloudVision

CloudVision is Arista's universal cloud management software, designed to provide a single pane of glass for managing network infrastructure across different environments. The video script discusses CloudVision's capabilities in simplifying network management, enhancing integration between public and private clouds, and offering real-time analytics.

💡DevOps

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten the system development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of value to end users. In the script, DevOps integration is mentioned as a feature of Arista's software, indicating its role in facilitating collaboration and efficiency in network operations.

💡Telemetry

Telemetry in networking refers to the collection and transmission of measurements and statistics from network devices. The video script highlights the support for telemetry in Arista's software, which is crucial for monitoring and managing network performance and health.

💡CMP Equal-Cost Multi-Pathing

CMP Equal-Cost Multi-Pathing is a routing technique that allows for the use of multiple paths with the same cost to increase redundancy and load distribution in a network. The script mentions this feature as part of Arista's architectural support for high availability and scalability.

💡VXLAN

VXLAN is a network virtualization technology that allows for the creation of virtual networks on top of an underlying physical network. The video script refers to VXLAN as a feature that Arista supports for network availability and scalability, particularly in virtualized environments.

💡Silicon Hardware

The term 'silicon hardware' in the script refers to the physical components, such as chips and circuits, that Arista uses in its networking devices. The script emphasizes the importance of advanced silicon hardware in ensuring speed, scalability, and efficiency in Arista's network solutions.

Highlights

Arista is a leader in building software-defined cloud networking for data centers and campus environments.

Arista delivers efficient, reliable, high-performance Universal Network architecture and cloud-based network architecture.

Arista's EOS is an extensible operating system that supports various network speeds from 10 Gig to 100 Gig.

Arista offers a single image, unlike Cisco, which has multiple image types like IOS and XOS.

EOS has three types of images: C for cloud-based, V for virtual environments, and E for on-premises environments.

Arista's architectural images support high availability, scalability, and are efficient for automation.

Arista software utilizes CI/CD pipelines, DevOps integration, and zero touch provisioning.

Arista supports cloud automation for universal deployment and advanced monitoring features like telemetry traces and T aggregator.

Arista's CMP equal cost load balancing and VXLAN support high availability and scalability for millions of VMs or container applications.

Arista's advanced silicon hardware ensures speed, scalability, and efficiency with proven investment protection.

Arista's universal cloud networking is based on Linux OS and can be divided into cloud, on-premises, or virtual environments.

Arista utilizes NestDB for advanced networking states, such as BGP and SSU processes, and API integrations.

Arista's platform offers global or universal images with advantages over other platforms for cloud, virtual, and hybrid environments.

Arista's Cloud Vision is a universal cloud solution that integrates with APIs and AI for automation, analytics, and availability.

Cloud Vision can save time on migration and integration between public and private clouds and provide a single pane of glass for multiple data centers.

Arista's software offers SDN-based control and security, DevOps, and network services orchestration with Cloud Vision.

Arista provides big data analytics and hybrid integration capabilities through Cloud Vision.

Arista's software overview will be further explored in future sessions, including command line operations and troubleshooting.

Transcripts

hi guys this is your host vij again so

in this session we are going to talk

about the how Arista uh uses his

software to innovate the things so there

are couple of uh things which Arista

take care of the Arista networking is a

leader in the building the you know

software Define software def Cloud

networking for you know data center or

for the cloud or campus environment so

Arista you know deliver the most

efficient or reliable or you know high

performance Universal Network

architecture or cloud based Network

architecture like based on the 10 gig 25

gig 40 gig 50 gig or 100 Gig which is

this is what you know Cisco offers the

Cisco Arista offers the one image unlike

the Cisco where you have IOS and xos and

lot of other image types Arista first

just we call that extensible operating

system which is the EOS and it has like

three types of images usually we used

for all the devices C which is a

cloud-based extensible image uh V which

is the Vos which is your virtual

environment base and then have we have e

which is your on premisis environment

base so basically there are you know a

couple of things which Arista take care

of in the by developing that

architectural based image or by

developing that you know considering

that you know software defined

networking SOA offers the in the images

ma thing is architectural wise the the

image is highest does support the

highest availability scalability and it

is also efficient when it comes to the

automation um Arista software or the

images also are capable of using the you

know or the utilizing that cicd pipeline

devops integration zero touch

provisioning and they are also capable

of handling the cloud automation for

everywhere everyone and when it's comes

to the analytic or monitoring of

management so it also does support that

telemetric traces T aggregator or

Advanced mirroring these kind of

features Arista images does support and

as I said Arista in the architectural

wise it has support of the CMP equal

cost Lo multipathing or the VXL for

avilability for scalability it can

support that you know Millions of VMS or

the container applications in their

infrastructure and when it comes to the

efficiency it can utilize the

advanced developing the the Silicon

Hardware ensuring that you know path for

the customer new advance in speeding or

scalability or the efficiencies uh you

know Pro with the proven investment

protection so this kind of U you know it

can uh uh you know software of the rest

and offers it also provide the universal

Cloud networking where you can have as I

said the e e has is a Linux based

application Linux based OS which can be

uh divided into the cloud which can

divided into the your

uh your on premises or virtual

environments these kind of and it it

also based on the nest DB I like the

Cisco images nowadays come with the

mongod DBS Arista utilize that Nest DB

which have for their Advanced networking

for their states for examp for their

microprocessor for example bgp process

SSU process API process and the routing

or the advanced layer to routing or ml

or SD for API so this for open open

software integration so this kind of

platform Integrations Arista offers the

the the global or Universal images like

the other platform which is I would say

the advantage over the other platform if

you know that one type of if you learn

the Os extensible Os details so it can

help you in the cloud environment also

deployment it can help you in the

virtual environment also whereas unlike

the other other vendors if you're going

ahead with the multiple products they

offer the multiple types of

images okay and these images are uh as I

said uh you know they have capability

for the

enhance or advanc you know architectural

multiprocess architectural architectures

and they have enhanc you know

reliability visibility surve ability for

At Any scale because they serve that 400

gig throughput per interfaces for their

devices so these images are capable of

handling the huge or scalable

infrastructure when it comes to the

large large scale okay similarly uh

Arista also offers the one Global

monitoring software which is called a

cloud Vision just like you know in in a

Cisco we have your AC apic devices Nexus

dashboard or the NSO or you know lot of

application Cisco offers just like in in

Juniper they offer the the mist and also

in the Aruba also they offers the global

solution for their platform similarly

Arista also offers the one universal

Cloud solution which can handle you on

premises Cloud you know a private Cloud

a public Cloud deployment wherever you

are using that your Arista devices it

can you know uh integrate with for the

API and AI driven and for the analytic

for the automation for the for the you

know availability of the architecture

these kind of things can be offered by

the cloud Vision Cloud Vision the main

as for the claim it save the 3x you know

faster for the migration integration

between the public and private cloud and

it can also you know provide a 10x

saving using the single plane of glass

it means it can it can act as a single

plane of glass glass for you multiple

data center with if you're having the

hybrid kind of scenario it can integrate

all the third party it can integrate all

the apis you know integration in the

their Cloud Vision it can also Ser that

uh configuration automating the things

you know upgrading the your

infrastructure without any issue troubl

suiting your infrastructure providing

Telemetry for the or the analytic for

the real time data these all the things

can be achieved by the cloud Vision yeah

yeah so this is all about the Arista

software however

uh the major thing is Arista software

offer is it also provide the sdn based

control and security it can also provide

the devops and Network Services it can

also orchestrate the using that uh Cloud

visa and it can also provide the big

analytic using the big data and it can

also have the uh feature of the hybrid

integration using the cloud vision and

all these things so yeah this is the uh

all about the

Arista oh yes there are couple of things

I will be covering in a different

section when I will discuss about the

you know Arista uh lab in the lab we

will explore that more option how the

command line Works how all these things

work in a how to trouble suit that but

this is just about that Arista software

overview we'll see you in next session

thanks for watching