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Arista Advanced Event Management

Traditional methods have served the static data center well in the past, but with the movement toward the virtualized cloud, an event driven service model is needed. Arista Networks solves these challenges by leveraging the power of Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), providing a unique set of tools to help directly address the challenge of advanced event management.

Are Fabrics Faster or Better Than Networks?

Over the past year interest in building ‘fabrics’ has grown throughout the networking community. This note explores some of the characteristics of fabric architectures and how Arista achieves equal or better results with more proven technologies.

Arista Network Design for Hadoop Clusters

Arista has designed the network infrastructures and implemented some of the largest and most mission critical Hadoop clusters around the world, with applications ranging from: Web Analytics Data Mining, Ad Serving and Targeting, Pharmaceutical Research, National Intelligence, Network Security and Pattern Matching, and Retail Merchandising.

Optimizing Oracle Service Oriented Architectures with 10Gb Ethernet

Arista’s hardware and network based HA features provide active-active network availability to complement Oracle’s own HA services such as Real Application Clusters (RAC). Arista EOS implements industry standard services to ensure interoperability and management integration to enhance the data center network.

Understanding VXLAN Virtual-Physical-Cloud L2/L3 Networks

VXLAN is a new network technology developed by VMware that enables stateful mobility, even across traditional L3 routed boundaries. This enables more freedom and flexibility in matching workloads to computing power

Building Cloud Scale Networks with CloudVision™

CloudVision™ simplifies the management and provisioning of complex multi-tier networks. It is a multi-switch message bus based protocol that enables CLI commands and XML messages to be sent to any participating switch, or group of switches.

Networking in the Hadoop Cluster

Hadoop and other distributed systems are increasingly the solution of choice for next generation data volumes. A high capacity, any to any, easily manageable networking layer is critical for peak Hadoop performance.

Arista's Latency Analyzer

Arista Networks’ Latency Analyzer (LANZ) represents a revolution in integrated network performance monitoring. For the first time, administrators and applications gain near real-time visibility into congestion conditions as experienced by the network itself.

Arista's Zero Touch Provisioning

Arista's Zero Touch Provisioning is used to configure a switch without user intervention. Built to fully leverage the power of Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), ZTP provides a flexible solution, provisioning the network infrastructure without requiring a network engineer present at install.

Arista VM Tracer Overview

Arista VM Tracer, a capability that is natively integrated into the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) links the Arista switches to VMware's vCenter and create an adaptive infrastructure whereby the network responds to sensed changes in the virtual machine network.

Tutorial on Real World Microbursts

This paper details the subject of Microbursts with respect to latency, jitter and traffic patterns and its impact on application performance.

A Rational Storage Strategy

Arista Networks views storage networking as a key horizontal technology in the data center and a key area of focus. Arista’s goal in storage networking is to support the broad market transitions that are happening in storage and support our customers storage interconnect requirements.

Scaling Data Center Networks

Learn more about Arista's definition of scalability of a data center network, the critical requirements and the issues that must be solved to address data center scalability.

Multichassis Link Aggregation

Arista’s MLAG feature allows you to scale at Layer 2 without wasting bandwidth in Spanning Tree Blocked mode. Any networking device supporting static LAG or IEEE 802.3ad LACP can connect to an MLAG pair. Now you can scale your network, without changing your topology.

Arista's 7100 series switches deployed in IBM's iDataPlex

Arista's 7100 series switches deployed in IBM’s iDataPlex system allow unprecedented server node density, scalability, reduced power and cost, and simplified network management for Web, HPC, financial, and cloud computing applications.

Building HPC Clusters with 10Gb Ethernet

High-Performance Computing (HPC) is proliferating across a wide range of industry sectors today. This document presents data comparing the performance of two well-known HPC applications and the impact of 1GE, 10GE and InfiniBand on their performance in a benchmarking environment.

Transporting Fiber Channel Protocols over 10GbE Switches with FCoE

Storage protocols running over 10GE is gaining momentum. Today majority of the deployments are iSCSI and NAS based. In the future, FCoE capable switches and FCFs along with converged adapters may drive new data centers towards greater efficiency in terms of network I/O power and cooling.