CloudVision provides a network-wide control point for real-time provisioning and orchestration across Arista's EOS platforms. It offers turnkey workflow automation, network services, and integration with third party controllers. CloudVision extends Arista's EOS platforms to enable software-driven cloud networking through network-wide visibility, automation of operations, and open APIs for partners.

1. Technical Forum
Transitioning to anAutomated, Software Driven
Cloud Network
Autumn 2015

2. Technical Forum
Do-It-Yourself
Custom development for
integration
Software development
resources & approach
DevOps
Leveraging existing tools
(Puppet, Chef etc)
Integration & customization via
scripts
Turnkey
Limited solutions today, focus on
legacy models
Customers need turnkey solution
for cloud-automation!
Approaches to Network Automation
Cloud Titan
High Tech
Enterprise / SP
Traditional
Enterprise / SP
10,000
network elements per engineer
1,000
network elements per engineer
100
network elements per engineer

3. Technical Forum
Manual, Box-by-Box Automated, Network-wide
Legacy Networking Cloud Networking
Closed architectures
Open,decoupled,
standards-based approaches
Limited integration and control
Control through deeper
programmability at all layers
Networking skill sets
New skill sets - virtualization,
DevOps,scripting
TheTransition to Cloud Networking

4. Technical Forum
CLI eAPI OVSDB SDK
Common binary/APIs for all platforms
LowInter-Process Communication
Arista EOS Architecture
Efficient Subscribe/Publish
Linear Cloud Scaling
Publish
Notify
PIM
SNMP BGP
MLAG
STP eAPI
IGMPSysdbDriver
Arista EOS: Resilient Cloud Scale Software
Open &
Programmable
Merchant Silicon
SysDB
CLI
SNMP
VXLAN
VM
Tracer
OSPFSTP
ASIC
Driver
SDN
APIs
LAG
BGP
Modular &
Resilient
Universal Cloud
Network
Customer Driven
Flexibility
Cloud Scale
Economics
EOS
vEOS
EOSPrinciples

5. Technical Forum
Operating the Software Defined Cloud Network
Deliver a cloud
orchestration model for
the network infrastructure
Drive and monitor the
physical network devices
based on the logical
architecture
Provision and manage the
logical network topology
Orchestrate the end-to-
end platformfor
compute, storage,
network and network
services
Network Underlay
FabricCoordination
Cloud Network
Management
The many facets of Software Driven Cloud Network control
Cloud Orchestration
OverlayNetwork
Control
Network & Security
Services Provisioning
Implement network security
policyand function service
flow across the logical
network

6. Technical Forum
§ EOS NetworkWide Services
§ Single network control point for:
• Third party controllers
• Orchestration services.
§ Turnkey workflow automation
CloudVision
Workflow Automation Services
Workload Orchestration Services
EOS Network Wide Services
Open APIs & Partner Access
Arista’s Universal Cloud Network
Arista EOS CloudVision

7. Technical Forum
CloudVision Components
Arista CloudVision
A network-wide multi-function control point
providing a single access point for real-time
provisioning,orchestration and integration with
multi-vendor controllers
The window into EOS,automating the workflows for
a variety of network provisioning,monitoring and
analysis tasks.
CloudVision Portal
(CVP)
CloudVision
eXchange (CVX)
Available
Now!
Available
Now!
Available
Now!

8. Technical Forum
EOS Devices
Workflow Automation Services
CloudVision Framework
Management, Monitoring Tools Orchestrators and Overlay Controllers
Open RESTfulAPIs
3rd Party
Integration
EOS Core
Services
Workload
Orchestration
Services
CloudVision eXchange (CVX)
OVSDB, eAPI, Plugins
CloudVision Portal (CVP)
Open APIs

9. Technical Forum
Platform for automation and visibility across the network
Network-Wide Database
Aggregation of network
wide Sysdb state
Abstraction of the
physical network
Single integration point to
the network
More scalable controller
integration
Provisioning of the logical
topology
State-sync

10. Technical Forum
Cloud
Orchestrators
Overlay
Controllers
www.arista.com
Network &
Security Services
Network
Layer
Network
Control Point
Points of
Integration
Single point of
integration to the
physicalinfrastructure
Platform for automation and visibility across the network
Network-Wide Database
State-sync
Open, Standard APIs
Web-based GUI
CLI

11. Technical Forum
Overlay
Controller
Scaling Controller Integration
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Overlay
Controller
Network Layer
Controller Layer
10x
Improvement
Sysdb
State Sync
Topology/Device
Dependent
Topology/Device
Abstraction
Traditional
Approach
CloudVision
Approach
Open, Standard APIs
Open, Standard APIs

12. Technical Forum
CloudVision Portal Key Features
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Network Rollback
Efficiently revert the network back
to a known good state
Overlay/Underlay Visibility
Physical and logical layout,VNI
mapping and performance hotspots
Provisioning
Turnkey solution for automating
network operations
Change Management
Snapshot of pre- and post-changes
for better control
Network-wide Upgrade
Automate software upgrades
across groups of devices
Maintenance
Mode
Production
Mode
Single Pane of Glass
Point and click interface to simplify
bulk tasks
Time tTime t-1
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13. Technical Forum
CVP - A Single Interface to Automation

14. Technical Forum
CloudVision Core Services
Manual box-by-box
operations with limited
network-wide correlation
Network-wide
synchronization for
topologylevel visibility.
No abilityto monitor
code versions and alert
on software bugs
Services Dashboards,
with proactive
notification tools
Separate vendor tools for
Inventory, Logging,
Management, Compliance etc.
Consolidated reporting
within a single application
Non-customizable NMS
tools built for limited
sizing and scale
Big Data Infrastructure and
fullycustomizable web GUI
Primary Secondary
Before With CloudVision

15. Technical Forum
CloudVision: Platform for Partners
Partner for NSX Controller for
overlay networking & VROps for
visibility
Partner for Converged System
architecture, including HP OneView
Partner for Controller integration
for Transport networks
Partner for OpenStack integration
Partner for L4-7 services
integration
Partner for Converged systems
Partner for L4-7 services
integration
Partner for OpenStack integration
Partner for Solution integration,
including ASM
Partner for Windows Server 2016
integration for network controllers
Partner for Controller integration
for overlay networks

16. Technical Forum
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CloudVision Summary
Fast path to Cloud:Turnkey solution for automation and orchestration
2 EOS is now a “Network Wide Service”
Opex Reduction: By enabling automation of simple cloud services
ExtendsArista’s EOS Platforms for Software Defined Cloud Networking
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17. Technical Forum
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