Redefining Data Center Switching

Marcin Mazur
Sales Manager – CEE
CCIE #24210

+48 601 51 3331

marcin@aristanetworks.com
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 Arista Corporate Highlights
•  8 Years in; 4 years shipping Product; Strong Momentum

•  Data Center Networking Best of Breed Focus (via SW)

•  Capture 10GB/Virtualization market transition in DC

•  Financials, HPC, Web 2.0/Cloud early success; now expanding Big Data,
Virtualization, etc

•  Experienced Leadership team and World Class Engineering Team

•  Award Winning Products & Differentiators; leverage Merchant silicon

•  Game changing software architecture (EOS)

•  Linux Kernel base; modular; segment State and process; Open API

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 Leadership Team

Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO

• 50 Most Powerful People (Network World, 2005)

• 15yr SVP Cisco for DataCenter, Switching, and Services

• Oversaw Catalyst 4500, 6500, and Nexus 7000

Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chairman, and CDO

•  Founder of Sun Microsystems

•  Founder of Granite Systems (Cat 4xxx range)

•  Initial investor in Google, Inc.

David Cheriton, Founder, Chief Scientist

•  Professor of CS at Stanford

•  Founder of Granite Systems

•  Founder of Kealia

•  Initial investor in Google, Inc.

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 ARISTA – hottest networking startup!!

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 Vertical Markets

High Frequency Trading/ High-Tech Manufacturing Defense Systems

Financial Applications

Science Web 2.0, Cloud, & Hosting Exploratory Geophysics

Storage Virtualization High Performance Computing

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Some Arista Networks Customers
Financial Services SP/Web/Cloud High Tech University Media

Gov/Research

Geophysics

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 Network Challenges Today

Single Vendor ASICs are inefficient

•  Long and slow development cycle
•  Inflexible to market changes,
•  Minimal level of differentiation, disappearing over life
cycle

Competitive products designed for email

•  Developed for general Campus data flows
•  Not built for specific demands of today’s performance
Verticals

Network O/S’s are not open

•  Network O/S have not evolved with software
development
•  Built on 15 year-old technology
•  Inflexibility to change and lack programability

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 Data Centre Design Philosophy

DC Border Router/MPLS
§  Arista products
-  Fine-tuned for the traffic growth East ßà West
-  10GE/40GE node attachment driven by Server
Virtualisation and CLOUD
Spine Layer
10/40 & 100Gbe
§  Evolutionary technology
-  Not ripping and replacing the existing DC
-  Co-existing with legacy technology
Leaf layer
1/10GbeWire- -  Open standards for guaranteed interop
speed -  MLAG to replace STP
-  <350n sec port-to-port latency
-  50MB buffers/port
-  Energy consumption: down to 2W/port
-  All ports wire-speed, NO OVERSUBSCRIPTION

Arista solution is targeted to meet the demands of the horizontal traffic growth
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 EOS – Extensible Operating System

• Fully modular, multi-process,

multi-threaded, stateful restart
• Core sysDB for all session
state and inter-process
communications
• In-service-software-upgrades
• Extensible architecture
enables 3rd party applications
• Focused on making operations
simpler
• One system image for all
product families

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 Arista EOS == SDN
OpenFlow 1.0 Native VMware
support with key integration into
partners like vSphere and vCloud
Big Switch - VXLAN integration
Networks

OpenStack support with Native API calls being

Native API integration and developed with key
partners including partners.
Nebula and Piston Network automation
through event manager

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 Arista Switch Family @ glance

Arista 7000 Series:

Highest density rack-top leaf switches

Arista 7100 Series:

Ultra-low latency switches

Arista 7500 Series:

Highest density spine/core switches
VOQ Architecture with big buffers

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 Arista Networks Data Centre Portfolio

e s w i tc h es
th
ma ge for all
te m – s ingle i
Op e r a ting Sys
le
Extensib

7500
7150S & 7124FX
7050 S/Q Lossless, High
7050 T Ultra Low Latency Density, Modular
7048T Switching System
16 Port 40Gb 24,52,64-port SFP+
Dense 36-64 Port 64/52 Port 10Gb 1G-40Gb Switches supporting up to 384
48-port Data
1/10GBASE-T Dense Wirespeed 10Gb
Center Class
Data Center Virtualization Intelligent FPGA Ports
Gigabit Ethernet
Switches 10GbE/40GbE DC Application Switch
Switch

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 Arista 7500 Network Scale

MLAG Spine (L2) ECMP Spine (OSPF/BGP)

10G&nodes:&Scale&with&Arista&Leaf/Spine&Design:&L2&MLAG& Scale&with&Arista&Leaf/Spine&Design:&L3&ECMP&

7050#Leaf/7508#Spine# 8832# 7050$Leaf/7508$Spine$ 18048$

7050#Leaf/7504#Spine# 4224# 7050$Leaf/7504$Spine$ 8832$

7050#Leaf/7050164#Spine# 1440# 7050$Leaf/7050064$Spine$ 2880$

7050#Leaf/7050152#Spine# 1152# 7050$Leaf/7050052$Spine$ 2304$

7124#Leaf/7050164#Spine# 600# 7124$Leaf/7050064$Spine$ 1200$

0# 1000# 2000# 3000# 4000# 5000# 6000# 7000# 8000# 9000# 10000# 0$ 2000$ 4000$ 6000$ 8000$ 10000$ 12000$ 14000$ 16000$ 18000$ 20000$
10GbE&nodes&interconnected&
10GbE&nodes&interconnected&

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 VXLAN- flat L2 VM mobility with L3 design

Layer 3 Tunnel
§  Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN)
-  IETF framework proposal, co-authored by Arista,
Vmware, Cisco, Citrix, Red hat and Broadcom
-  Announced at VMworld 2011
Subnet A Subnet B

ESX host ESX host

§  vMotion across Layer 3 boundaries
VM mobility
-  Overcomes flat L2 limitations
Across Layer 3 subnets
-  Integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure
-  Supported in vSphere 5.1
VM-1 VM-3
10.10.10.1/24 10.10.10.2/24
VM-4
20.20.20.1/24
VM-2
20.20.20.1/24

VM mobility within a best practice layer-3 network Architecture

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Arista’s Cloud ECO-System

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 Arista EOS- Value Added OS
Details 1. MLAG 2. LANZ 3. ZTP 4. VM Tracer 5. Cloud 6. AEM
Vision

Problem §  Eliminate Track Latency & Automated switch § VM visibility & §  Manage at scale " § Automated
Spanning-tree packet loss" deployments & provisioning" § Simplify daily reaction to events
§ Large flat scalable replacement" network operations" in the network"
network

Other § vPC. §  SPAN monitoring" None" None" None" Manual reaction to
§  Expensive sniffers events "
Solutions

Limitations of § Priory Tagged §  Uplinks No way to auto No integration into Fabric connectivity Very reactive, i.e.
§ Non standards oversubscribed" provision new VSphere to auto is vendor specific wait for an event to
current spaced § ‘Fan in’ caused by switches for large discover and and handcuffs occur, then after
solutions network over- data center provision virtualized customer to higher alarm in NOC
subscription" deployments" and physical servers long-run occurs, Tiered
§  Slow & reactive" in the correct VLAN operational costs" escalation in data
& trunk ports" center"

Arista Solution § Represent 2 § Identify network • Rack" § Visibility to vSwitch, §  Single device" Automate actions
physical devices latency BEFORE • Connect" ESX host, VMs, " §  EOS Emulator" based on events:"
(Product logical as one drops occur" • Power-on" § Auto provision §  Global port § Event Handler"
Differentiation) § Active / Active NICs § Proactive VLANs on access or profiles" § Event Monitor"
§ Hitless MLAG & notification" trunk ports" §  Singe CLI or all § Cli Scheduler"
ISSU and § Real-time queue multiple functions § Linux Tools"
§ 32 ports in MLAG depth analysis" and devices"

Impact to end énetwork availability é Visibility into ê Network é  MTTR" é Single & easier Proactive, improve
énetwork resiliency network congestion deployment time" ê Reduces Opex" management" SLAs to the
user é bandwidth and app ‘slowness’" business"

Financial ê Operational costs ê Improving Service ê Change control ê  Costs for change ê Operational éNetwork
by éswitch port Delivery in ITIL costs to implement control" costs to run availability
Impact utilization and ê model new infrastructure ê  server migration infrastructure" êOperational costs
under provisioned drastically with less will lower downtime" to run infrastructure"
network resources"
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