Product Information
HPE and Arista share a common vision around the need to deliver secure hybrid IT solutions and experiences built on advanced software-defined infrastructure - helping customers to operate their workloads with speed and agility to grow their business. This partnership will provide the customers with great networking solutions that are superior to legacy alternatives and that complement HPE compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud offerings. The Arista 7500R series of purpose-built modular switches delivers the high performance to meet the needs of the large scale data centers. They combine scalable L2 and L3 resources and high density with advanced features for network monitoring, precision timing, and network virtualization to deliver scalable and deterministic network performance - while simplifying designs and reducing OPEX. The 7500R can be deployed in a wide range of open networking solutions, including large scale Layer 2 and Layer 3 cloud designs, overlay networks, and virtualized or traditional enterprise data center networks. Deep packet buffers and large routing tables allow for Internet peering applications and provide complete deployment flexibility.
- Scaling data center performance
The Arista 7500R Series deliver non-blocking switching capacity that enables dramatically faster and simpler network designs for data centers and lower both capital and operational expenses. A wide range of modular systems with a single consistent EOS allows for flexible selections at all tiers of the network and deployment scenarios including layer 2 MLAG, layer 3 ECMP, VXLAN Overlay and Internet Peering. Arista's Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) technology supports a leaf and spine active/active L2 network topology. An Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) design at Layer 3 scales the network in a fully non-blocking, low-latency, two-stage network that provides predictable and consistent application performance. - Enhanced features for high performance cloud networks
The Arista 7500R delivers a suite of advanced traffic control and monitoring features to improve the agility of modern high performance environments, with solutions for automation, data monitoring, precise timing and next-generation virtualization. Automating the data center enables customers to dynamically provision computing resources in an efficient manner while also meeting business needs by maintaining service level agreements (SLAs). Arista EOS automates complex IT workflows and simplifies network operations while reducing or even eliminating downtime. Arista EOS rich automation capabilities not only reduce the human error element in network operations but also enable IT operators to make the network work the way they want. Arista offers solutions for a variety of approaches to cloud-like network automation. Addressing the needs of the largest public cloud environments as well as applying those lessons learned in the turnkey CloudVision automation offering. - CloudVision
CloudVision is a network-wide approach for workload orchestration and workflow automation as a turnkey solution for Cloud Networking. CloudVision extends the EOS publish subscribe architectural approach across the network for state, topology, monitoring and visibility. This enables enterprises to move to cloud-class automation without needing any significant internal development. Advanced Event Management (AEM), a sub-system of Arista EOS, is a powerful and flexible tool to automate tasks and customize the behavior of EOS and the operation of the overall data center switching infrastructure. Simplifying the overall operations, AEM provides the tools to customize alerts and actions. AEM allows operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and automate actions based on changing network conditions. - Precise Data Analysis
Arista Latency Analyzer (LANZ) and Precision Data Analyzer (DANZ) are integrated features of EOS. DANZ provides a solution to monitoring and visibility challenges at 10/40/100Gbps giving IT operations the ability to proactively deliver feedback on congestion events, filter, replicate, aggregate and capture traffic without affecting production performance. LANZ provides precise real-time monitoring of micro-burst and congestion events before they impact applications, with the ability to identify the sources and capture affected traffic for analysis. - Virtualization
Supporting next-generation virtualized data centers requires tight integration with orchestration tools and emerging encapsulation technologies such as VXLAN. The 7500R builds on the valuable tools already provided by the Arista VM Tracer suite to integrate directly into encapsulated environments. Offering a wire-speed gateway between VXLAN and traditional L2/3 environments, the 7500R makes integration of non-VXLAN aware devices including servers, firewalls and load-balancers seamless and provides the ability to leverage VXLAN as a standards based L2 extension technology for non-MPLS environments.