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Arista Introduces Next Generation Arista EOS
January 2016 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Arista Networks announced the next phase of Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System). This evolution is based on three powerful building blocks: Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud and Container Support.
Infrastructure - NetDB expands the network roles for Arista’s spine platforms. With NetDB enhancements, EOS now supports in excess of 1 million routes and 100,000 tunnels for increased cloud scale. NetDB also provides the ability to aggregate the network state of all EOS devices to a common point through the CloudVision® platform and, from there, stream network-wide telemetry data to improve network operations visibility and historical analytics.
Built with extensibility at its core, EOS continues to evolve its API infrastructure with new support for agents written in the increasingly popular Go programming language, as well as support for OpenConfig APIs and data models.
Hybrid Cloud - Arista EOS features support for workload migration between private and public workloads and CloudVision management for hybrid cloud solutions. By delivering appropriate EOS Tracer tools for cloud-bursting, enterprise customers can now seamlessly execute their hybrid cloud roadmap. This bridges the gap between private and public clouds.
Container Support - Arista EOS extends its virtualization support by adding both the ability to run Docker containers on EOS, as well as improved physical and virtual visibility with Container Tracer. Container support in EOS offers customers the flexibility to load container-based applications directly onto the Arista EOS platform. Complementing visibility tools for bare metal and hypervisor designs, Container Tracer delivers advanced placement and monitoring capabilities for emerging container-based applications.
Product Availability
The NetDB EOS enhancements are integrated into the latest EOS releases and are transparent to customer deployments. This natural evolution maintains the same single binary image philosophy and non-disruptive upgrade capabilities.
The additional new infrastructure enhancements will be generally available in Q1 2016.
