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reinventing data center switching

reinventing data center switching. Arista Overview. Focus on Cloud Networking and Data Center Switching Launched Arista Networks products in Oct’ 2008 200+ Employees and Sales Associates 750+ customers worldwide #2 10GbE leader for Fixed Switches Privately-held, Pre-IPO. Leadership Team.

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reinventing data center switching

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  1. reinventing data center switching

  2. Arista Overview • Focus on Cloud Networking and Data Center Switching • Launched Arista Networks products in Oct’ 2008 • 200+ Employees and Sales Associates • 750+ customers worldwide • #2 10GbE leader for Fixed Switches • Privately-held, Pre-IPO

  3. 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 • 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.

  4. Network architectures are changing Incumbents are over-burdened supporting their legacies Reinventing data center switching to address these requirements and the market opportunity Delivering the most efficient Ethernet switching platform

  5. The Arista Solution Full custom, faster, denser commercially-available silicon Designed for data center traffic patterns Modern, open, and scalable O/S

  6. Arista Leaf/Spine Cloud Architecture Core Router 10/40/100Gb Spine Non-Blocking Spine 1/10Gb Wire-speed Leaf Layer High Performance Nodes Low-Latency Trading Capacity System Feed Handler IP Storage Video Streaming VM Farm EDA Server VM Farm

  7. Products

  8. Arista 7000 Product Family

  9. EOS

  10. Fully modular, multi-process, multi-threaded, stateful restart • Core sysdb for all session state and inter-process communications • Extensible architecture enables 3rd party applications • Focused on making operations simpler • One system image for all product families Linux Kernel

  11. Extensibility - How • Linux based • Same tools and processes that Arista developers use • C++, python, perl, TCL • Linux provides processing integrity • Sysdb provides state integrity

  12. Arista’s Point of View on Virtualization Build the best switch for virtualized environments Let the VM administrator control the virtualization platform Reduce onerous network tasks, integrate smoothly with the virtualization platform, deliver unprecedented visibility

  13. Virtualization Challenges Challenges Solutions VM Consolidation onto smaller number of high powered servers 10GbE has better cost/performance/efficiency while reducing interfaces vMotion and workload portability requires flatter network Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) for scalable flat networks VM Tracer provides edge visibility of vSwitch, ESX host, VMs, and auto-provisions VLANs on trunk Each vSwitch needs a VLAN trunk - network loses edge visibility Latency and performance requirements of VM Fault Tolerance 8Gb per vMotion on Westmere and Low-Latency req’t of VM-FT All workflows integrated via vSphere, onerous network tasks are all automated Administrative and architectural conflict

  14. EOS Central EOS development community site Source Code samples Hosted community projects EOS development binaries EOS on a VM emulator Developer forums API access and development

  15. EOS Central – sample projects EOS API Development - structured data model and programmatic configuration CloudVision - XMPP based multi-switch message-bus VM Tracer - Opening up VM integration to Xen, KVM, Hyper-V Modern CLI - 1980’s based CLI with ‘watch’ commands Zero Touch Provisioning Server - for enterprises and SPs to host ZTP bootscripts EOS VM - for local machine modeling of multi-switch networks

  16. CloudVision XMPP-1- • Provide distributed CLI access to ‘0000s of concurrent switches and other devices • Use open standards • Support any topology- L2, L3, Tunneled, MPLS, etc • Easy to program to and develop - like SMTP • Secure, Authenticated, Proven • Develop in open source model

  17. Arista key differentiators Speeds and Feeds Highest port count density Highest throughput density Lowest latency Power efficient Very competitive pricing Enterprise class, highly redundant Configurable, flexible EOS Modern Networking Operating System Ground breaking architecture Highly robust In Service Software Updates Extensible, with open APIs Provide the foundation for tomorrow’s data center designs

  18. Thank You!

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