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Arista Networks has announced three new network applications that integrate with Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), the world’s most advanced network operating system, to simplify IT operations: OpenWorkload, Smart System Upgrade and Network Telemetry. Leveraging the industry’s only fully programmable network operating system, Arista EOS, these network applications and associated partner ecosystems bring a new level of awareness to critical applications in the datacentre.
The three new Arista EOS applications are:
OpenWorkload - simplified networking for virtualised and cloud environments. Enables a distributed system of network switches to support truly mobile workloads. Arista and VMware collaborated to enable Arista EOS switches to seamlessly integrate with VMware NSX, the platform for network virtualisation, to provide hardware-based gateway services for non-virtualised servers and existing VLANs. Arista is also integrating with OpenStack and other orchestration platforms to provide automated provisioning, stateful workload portability and total workload visibility.
Smart System Upgrade - reducing the burden caused by network upgrades, minimising application downtime, and reducing the risks taken during critical change controls. Provides a fully customisable suite of features that tightly couples data center infrastructure partners, such as Microsoft, F5 and Palo Alto Networks. Microsoft’s Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) allows devices to be seamlessly taken out or put into service. This helps customers stay current on the latest software releases without unnecessary downtime or systemic outages.
Network Telemetry - a new model for faster troubleshooting from fault detection to fault isolation. Streams data about network state, including both underlay and overlay network statistics, to applications from Splunk, ExtraHop, Corvil and Riverbed. With critical infrastructure information exposed to the application layer, issues can be proactively avoided.
“Businesses are increasingly deploying network virtualisation to simplify IT and improve the speed of business,” said Milin Desai, director, product management, VMware. “VMware and Arista are partnering to integrate Arista EOS-based and VMware NSX to enable the same operational model to be used for both virtual and physical workloads, resulting in increased efficiency and agility for the data center operator."
“With Microsoft’s standards-based approach to datacentre management, customers benefit from a plug-and-play experience when they use Arista’s OMI-enables switches,” said Vijay Tewari, Principal Group Program Manager, Windows Server and System Center, at Microsoft. “These switches have met the requirements to carry the Windows Logo, so they just work with Windows Server and System Center 2012 R2 without the need for additional software.”