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- 1. Reinventing Data Center Switching Tom Flaherty - Colorado David Koerner – Utah
- 2. • Best-of-Breed • Performance • Quality • Reliability • Innovation • Value • Rapid market adoption • Support Arista and VLCM Deliver • Networking Experience • Data Center Experience • Technical Resources • Dozens of certifications • Over 30 years in Utah • Strong responsive team • Knowledge of adjacent & complementary solutions
- 3. Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, Ken Duda 1200+ Employees 70% of employees are engineers 3300 Customers Fastest growing switch maker, highly profitable 7 of 8 of the largest Cloud Titans run on Arista Networks 8 of 10 of the largest Financial Services firms run on Arista Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET)
- 4. Thinking differently about the data center... Where has it gotten us?
- 5. Starting in the early 2000’s there was an EXPLOSION of hyper-scale cloud data centers. Existing solutions could not keep pace with demands.
- 6. Enter Arista. (HQ Offices in Santa Clara, California)
- 7. Arista: Created for the new Cloud Data Center Arista EOS x64 Linux Kernel vCenterAPI UserKVM SysDB - Central State Database XMPPClient LED ASICs STP CLI MLAG Routing World Class Hardware Highest Densities Lowest Power Consumption Superior buffering Software Architecture (EOS) Built on unmodified Linux Kernel: Standardized, Simple and Open. Single binary SW image across entire platform: Simplicity, lower OpEx. Unique “SysDB” database manages process state and process communication.
- 9. 7048T 48-port Data Center Class Gigabit Ethernet Switch with Deep Buffering 7150S Ultra Low Latency 24,52,64-port SFP+ 1G-40GbE Switches Intelligent Application Switch 7050 S/T/Q 1/10G & 10/40G Data Center Switches 10G SFP+ / 10G-T Dense Virtualization 10GbE / 40GbE DC 7050X & 7280X Dense Low Latency 32 & 64-port QSFP+ 96xSFP+/8xQSFP+ 48-port 10Gb w/ 100Gb Uplinks Advanced Virtualization Scale-out Visibility 7500E Lossless, High Density, Modular Switching System supporting up to 1152 Wire speed 10GbE Ports Spine 10-40-100GbE 7300X High Density, Modular System supporting up to 512 40GbE Cloud Scale Leaf and Spine 10GbE-40GbE 7010 48-port Data Center Class Gigabit Ethernet Switch Arista Networks: The Best Data Center Portfolio
- 10. Built for ANY Application – Universal Cloud Architecture Network Applications Big Data IP Storage VM Farms Cloud VDI Legacy Applications Web 2.0 HFT
- 11. Legacy Data Center 100s of nodes 2000 era “Leaf-Spine” 2010+ 100,000 nodes SDCN Network 2014+ Leaf, Spine, Spline Model Multiple north-south points of management, oversubscription, wasteful cost model Simplified management, active-active links, optimized model Open One View Vision physical and virtual and any-to-any programmable operations Software Driven Cloud Networking: 2010-2014+
- 12. A Simple Comparison... 3-Tier Legacy 2-Tier Leaf/Spine Total # of Aggregation Switches 10 4 Cabinets per Aggregation Switch 3.6 17.25 Power for Aggregation 24.4kW 8.4kW Number of Network Ports 2,304 1,152 Number of Host Ports 3,456 6,816 Network to Host Ratio 1:1.5 1:6
- 13. Only product line to win INTEROP Grand Prize… Twice. 11 RU 1152 10Gb Ports 288 40Gb Ports 96 100Gb Ports Non Blocking Ultra low latency with advanced buffering 3x less power consumption EOS Arista 7508E – At a Glance
- 14. Industry’s first 100Gb 1RU Switch Up to 72 10Gb Ports 2 100Gb Ports Ultra deep packet buffer (9Gb) Up to 1.44 Terabits per Second Non Blocking Ultra low latency EOS Arista 7280E – At a Glance *Car sold separately
- 16. IOS Real Time OS Single-Instance Code ‘Blob’ Modular OS Modified BSD KernelRouting Protocols SpanningTree JunOSSpace SNMP Arista EOS x64 Linux Kernel vCenterAPI UserKVM SysDB - Central State Database XMPPClient LED ASICs STP CLI MLAG Routing 1980’s 1990’s 2010 Limited modularity – JUN OS / NX OS All communication goes through shared memory, or kernel based IPC Each new process requires changes to all others it communicates with No concept of ‘state’ Extensive kernel modification reduces reliability and slows security response A simple architecture < 25k lines of code, Any failure causes complete system crash Bugs and defects have no accountability Architectural Features - Self healing Fault Isolation/Repair Process-Level Upgrades Defect Elimination Auto-build/ Auto-test Machine Generated SW Open & Programmable Persistent VM Space Direct Shell Access Python CLI Event Triggered LANZ/DANZ, ZTP/ZTR, RAIL, etc OperatingSystemMaturityDifference in Network Operating Systems
- 17. Arista EOS x64 Linux Kernel vCenterAPI UserKVM SysDB - Central State Database XMPPClient LED ASICs STP CLI MLAG Routing Superior Software Architecture Processes run in their own Linux name space and communicate through SysDB. A bug or crash in one process does not spillover to other processes SysDB has state awareness for each process, and can even restart a process automatically Improves stability and troubleshooting No “Christmas Tree Light” effect 4x fewer RMA’s Linux Kernel
- 18. Arista: One Extensible Operating System. Quality, Simplicity and Scale NX-OS N9K NX-OS & iNX-OS Linux 2.6 kernel Linux 3.4.10 kernel STP Port- Sec 802.1X MSDP ETH- PM Eukera USD Lamira USD IPQOS ACL ELTM L2FMC L2FM BD- MGR SVI- MGR LC ELTM LC_ACL QOS PIM IGMP NF M6RIBMFDM PIXMC IGMP Snoop PIXM SA CT UFDM U4RIB BGP CoPP EARL NF SPM LC FIB oRIB L2 MCAST OTV OSPF ISIS EIGRP RIP M4RIB U6RIB STP Port- Sec 802.1X MSDP ETH- PM Eukera USD Lamira USD IPQOS ACL ELTM L2FMC L2FM BD- MGR SVI- MGR LC ELTM LC_ACL QOS PIM IGMP NF M6RIBMFDM PIXMC IGMP Snoop PIXM SA CT UFDM U4RIB BGP CoPP EARL NF SPM LC FIB oRIB L2 MCAST OTV OSPF ISIS EIGRP RIP M4RIB U6RIB EOS Cisco NX-OS software architecture Complex to code, debug, test and troubleshoot (Modular spaghetti) Arista EOS software architecture SysDB used for all State and IPC System Integrity is not dependent on synchronous ordering of events. Does not fail at scale Cisco iNX-OS software architecture (Moving from a Linux-2.6 to 3.4 kernel does not fix NX-OS quality)
- 20. Open and Programmable at Every Level Some examples…
- 21. Arista VM Tracer with VXLAN support automatically provisions segments and supports thousands of VMs VMware Arista integrates with VMware NSX in VLAN mode today and in 2015 will integrate via OVSDB VMware NSX Arista natively supports Openstack Neutron ML2 integration natively Openstack Openstack w/ SDN Controller Arista integrates with multiple controller vendors to support Openstack orchestration Network Virtualization Deployment Architectures
- 22. NMSApplications Switch detects potential congestion LANZ alerts applications and NMS Application reacts to conditions NMS Identifies hotspots Understand the source of latency (local or remote) - Microbursting • Alert applications to congestion trends early via LANZ streaming • Enable pro-active response - avoid losses or latency increases • Export data to management systems - correlate/graph historical data LANZ Revolutionizes Network Visibility
- 23. Multi-Destination Fine Grain Symmetric Load balancing 4x10Gb or 40Gb Monitor Ports 7150S Hardware Time Stamp IP StorageApp Platforms Database Platforms App Platforms App Platforms App Platforms App Platforms Scales with predictable investment - does not compromise visibility 7150S Hardware Time Stamp Flow Aggregation 7150S Hardware Time Stamp 7150S Hardware Time Stamp EOS API 7150S TAP Aggregation Monitoring Traffic Production Traffic DANZ Open & Scalable Data Analysis Solution
- 24. • Track Hadoop nodes • View activity statistics • Correlate congestion events with jobs running • Automatically trigger packet capture • Proactive failed node notification MapReduce Tracer HPC – Storage & Big Data Tracers Detect • Routing issues • Hardware problems • Performance bottlenecks Log • Packet loss per path • Stream loss per hop • Network paths taken React • Alert operations • Execute script • Exception flow forwarding • Notify external controller PathTracer
- 25. Untrusted/Unknown Flow Trusted Flow Software Defined Networking with Context Intelligent integration makes optimized and secure SDN forwarding decisions Arista Switch Next Generation Firewall Attack Flow
- 26. Deploy switches in minutes Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
- 27. Customers LOVE our Support
Editor's Notes
- Arista is located in Santa Clara CA in the heart of silicon valley. It was founded by Andy Bechtolshiem and David Cheriton. David Cheriton is currently a professor at Stanford university. Andy was a co-founder of sun Microsystems in 1982. Andy and David co-founded a company called granite systems in 1995 which was subsequently acquired by Cisco systems in 1996. Andy served at VP and GM of Cisco’s Gigabit Systems business unit from 1996 to 2003. The gigabit Systems business unit was responsible for the highly successful Catalyst 4500 and 4900 Series of switches. Andy and David were also the initial investors in Google in the late 90s Jayshree Ullal, formerly SVP of Cisco’s Data Center, Switching and Services group was named Arista’s CEO in 2008. A 15 year veteran of Cisco, Jayshree originally came to Cisco through their first acquisition of Cresendo in 1993.
- The market leader had a “silo” approach (different infrastructures for different applications) which was over-engineered, too complex, too expensive, too rigid, and prone to software deficiencies (excessive bugs requiring restarts, patches or upgrades) Customers demanded higher value and reliability. Better automation, standardization, and programmability. In short: Next-generation data centers required a new hardware and software architecture.
- Better stability, fewer bugs, faster troubleshooting.
- Network virtualization is all about the overlay, we’re are the underlay, which is the foundation for any virtualized network or service. In fact, when the President of Vmware came to speak at Arista, he coined the phrase: “Software doesn’t run on Software”
- This switch is the heart (and the Spine) of the two largest networks in the world (Netflix)
- The largest buffers in the industry – when performance really matters. Competitive switches have 9 MB (buffering), we have 9 GB. 1000x