Reinventing Data Center Switching

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About Arista Networks
10/40/100GbE Networks for the
Virtualized Cloud & Data Center

 Founded in 2004
 Shipping Since Mid-2008
 2100+ Customers
 600+ Employees

Profitable, self-funded network

infrastructure provider

Founded to build the best

Network Operating System for
Next Generation Data Centers

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 Key Executives

Andy Bechtolsheim Jayshree Ullal

Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman President and CEO

Founder of Sun Microsystems Part of Cisco’s 1st acquisition of Crescendo

Founder of Granite Systems 15 yr Cisco SVP for Data Center, Switching & Services
Initial investor in Google, Inc. Joined Arista in 2008

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 Corporate Strategy

Best-of-Breed Merchant Silicon Cloud + Data Center Focus Best-of-Breed Software

Modern, Programmable, Open

Optimized for HPC, Web, Big Ecosystem & Channel Global TAC and RMA Depots,
Data & Network Virtualization Partners “Engineers Answer the Phone”

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 Arista Networks: Product Portfolio

7500E
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
48-port Data
1/10GBASE-T Dense 1152 10G, 288 40G
Center Class
Data Center Virtualization Intelligent or 96 100G ports all
Gigabit Ethernet
Switches 10GbE/40GbE DC Application Switch at wirespeed
Switch

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 The Foundation – Extensible Operating
System
`
Modular Resilient Programmable

Interface Manager
Cloud

Spanning Tree
Vision

ASIC Drivers
OSPF/BGP CLI

Machine
Agent New Agent

Virtual
SysDB
ASIC
MLAG
Driver SysDB - Central State Database
ProcMgr SysDB
Standard Linux Kernel
Third-Party
STP
Agents

Arista EOS

• Multi-process/threaded state • One image all products

• Self Healing
sharing architecture • Extensible architecture
• Stateful Fault Containment
• Isolated agents and enables 3rd party
• Stateful Fault Repair
processes applications
• Highly Available
• Secure • Open
• Process-Level Upgrades
• Reliable • Programmable
• Designed for auto-test

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 Arista EOS Unique Differentiators
10 Years of EOS Innovation
Software
Defined
Networks
Application
Visibility
Extensible
Automation &
Virtualization Provisioning
and OpenFlow
Orchestration DirectFlow
Programmable eAPI
LANZ, TAP Agg
and Open DANZ
Scalable ZTP/ZTR Health Tracer
Networks Python, Hadoop Tracer
Modern Chef, Puppet,
Operating VM Tracer RAIL
System OpenStack
CloudVision
Scripting
NSX
eAPI
AEM
MLAG
Linux tools
ECMP
VXLAN
Single Binary Image
Self Healing
Stateful Resilience
Modular

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The Arista SDN Advantage:
Open and Flexible
Programmability – open and
programmable network operating system
– EOS

Traffic Engineering – broadest set of

controls and options for steering,
shaping, redirecting and copying traffic

Orchestration – API connections to cloud

and virtualization platforms to automate
provisioning

Open to All Controllers – OpenStack,

OpenFlow, VMware

Network Virtualization – integrated

hardware VXLAN support allows any
workload to run anywhere

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Arista and Enterprise IT: Customer Projects
 DANZ/TAP Aggregation
 Private/Public Clouds
 VM Farms
 Web Services
 Ethernet/IP Storage
 Big Data/Business Analytics
 HPC Applications
 Latency-Sensitive Applications
 10/40/100 GbE Data Center

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DANZ / TAP Aggregation
Challenges:
 Better visibility
 10/40/100 GbE networks
 East-West data center
traffic patterns
 Distributed applications,
mobile workloads
 New regulations

Arista Advantages: Arista Business Value:

 Ethernet economics at 1/10  Pervasive application and
the cost network visibility
 Simple licensing scheme  Disruptive economics
 Industry standard interface  Converged switching and
 High-end features in monitoring platform and
standard platform operations

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Private/Public Clouds
Public Cloud Private Cloud
Lessons Learned
- Design for multi-
- Scale changes tenancy
everything
- Commodity hardware
- Virtualize: workload
mobility is essential - Open source software

- Repeatable design to - 100% automation

support all applications
- Single infrastructure
team

Arista Advantages: Arista Business Value:

 Unprecedented scalability  Support for differentiated
 EOS=SDN=Programmability services
 eAPI for open telemetry  Maintain SLAs
 ZTP for rapid deployment and  Programmable Data Center
provisioning  Comprehensive network
 OpenStack, VMware integration visibility
 EOS built with Cloud reliability
 Repeatable, supportable
infrastructure modules
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 Arista EOS:
VM Farms Any VM, Anywhere, Programmed and Provisioned in Software

Challenges:
 Visibility to network edge
 Workload mobility
 Increasing VM and host
density
 Scalability

Arista Advantages:
 VM Tracer and DANZ for
provisioning, visibility and
troubleshooting Arista Business Value:
 Network virtualization with  Enables agile, scalable,
VXLAN – VM mobility optimized networks
 Integrates with all leading  Ubiquitous network visibility
virtualization solutions  Predictable application
 Highest density solutions performance
 Dense 10G and 40G Systems  Linear scale out
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 Perform Orchestrate Automate
Web Services [admin@st321 ~]$ uptime
06:21:23 up 48 min, 4 users, load average: 0.36, 0.24, 0.21

[admin@st321 ~]$ vmstat 1

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
00 0 15560 61852 505448 0 0 38 26 405 487 13 1 86 0 0
00 0 15548 61852 505500 0 0 0 0 731 582 2 0 98 0 0

[admin@st321 ~]$ free

Consistent
Challenges: to User
total used
Mem: 1035976 1020484 15492
-/+ buffers/cache:
free

453132 582844
shared buffers
0 61916 505436
cached

 Cloud cost structure

Swap: 0 0 0

Spine 1 Spine 2 Spine-16

 Cloud scalability
 Workflow automation
 Supporting new services
and applications
Scale Out Scale Out

Pod-1 Pod-2 Pod-3 Pod-4 Pod-1152

Arista Advantages:
 Unprecedented scalability Arista Business Value:
 Flexible programmability  Dramatically lower capex and
 Zero Touch Provisioning opex
 Consistent performance  Repeatable, supportable,
 Integration with Load cost-effective infrastructure
Balancers and Firewalls  Enables application
 Integration with Chef, Puppet, integration with network
CFEngine
 Proactive fabric monitoring
 Ubiquitous network visibility
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Ethernet/IP Storage
Challenges:
 Rapid data storage growth
 Performance and scalability
 Many to one contention
 Host and target speed
mismatches

Arista Advantages:
 Massively scalable
 Highest performance Arista Business Value:
 Highest density  Simple linear scale out
10/40/100GbE  Predictable application performance
 Lowest latency  Unprecedented network visibility
 Deep buffers and lossless  Reliable network
delivery
 Network visibility
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Big Data/Business Analytics
Challenges:
 Processing large data sets
 Long run times
 Node failures impact
 Need to scale out quickly
 Operational complexity

Arista Advantages:
 Best performance, density,
scalability and cost profile
 Deep buffers for bursty TCP Arista Business Value:
 RAIL for fast node recovery  Complete jobs faster
 Zero Touch Provisioning  Predictable application
 LANZ for capacity and performance
congestion management  Hadoop cluster visibility
 Integration with Chef, Puppet  Operational simplicity
and Ansible  Make better decisions
 Increase profitability
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HPC Applications
Challenges:
 Multi-Petabyte data sets
 Massive compute scaleout
 Multi-tenant environments
 Need for faster, better
results

Arista Advantages:
 Cost effective
 Highest throughput
 Highest density Arista Business Value:
 Lowest power consumption  Complete jobs faster
 Resilient, Active-Active link  Make better decisions
designs  Attract research talent
 Highest scalability  Increase profitability
 OpenStack integration
 Simplest operations
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Latency-Sensitive Applications
Challenges:
 Ultra-low system latency
 Consistently low jitter
 Precision time stamping
 Micro-burst handling
 Latency visibility

Arista Advantages: Arista Business Value:

 Ultra-low consistent latency  Execute trades faster
 Integrated NAT reduces latency  Improve network visibility
 1588 PTP clock synchronization  Increase profitability
 Latency ANalyZer (LANZ)  Lossless video broadcast
 High density & scalability

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10/40/100 GbE Data Centers
Challenges:
 Investment protection
 Application performance
 Operational stability
 Innovate with best of breed
 Ongoing capex reductions

Arista Advantages: Arista Business Value:

 10/40/100 GbE scale  Arista de-risks building a
 Industry standard CLI multivendor network
 Proven in multivendor  We protect your investment
environments in equipment and training
 Network visibility with DANZ and  Cost-effective network
TAP Aggregation visibility
 Single EOS image for all products  Operational simplicity
 Best switch for virtualization
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Arista’s Eco-System Partners

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 Next Steps?

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