Arista warrior

A relative newcomer in the data centre and cloud networking markets, Arista has recently met with considerable success. With this book, renowned consultant and technical author Gary Donahue (Network Warrior) provides a practical, in-depth guide to Arista's line-up of networking hardware, as well as its underlying EOS operating system. Donahue gives special attention to Arista-specific features such as SysDB, MLAG, Latency Analyser (LANZ), VM Tracer, and Zero-Touch Provisioning. You'll also learn about Arista's hardware advantages, such as merchant silicon, low-latency networking and comparatively low power consumption. Is Arista right for your data centre? Pick up this guide and find out. Arista switches all support bash shell access and Python scripting.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Arista? -- A Brief History of Arista -- Key Players -- The Needs of a Data Center -- Data Center Networking -- The Case for Low Latency -- Network-Based Storage -- Arista Delivers -- Hardware -- EOS -- Bash -- SysDB -- MLAG -- VARP -- LANZ -- VM Tracer -- ZTP -- Email -- Event Scheduler -- TCP Dump -- Event Handler -- Event Monitor -- Extending EOS -- CloudVision -- 2. Buffers -- 3. Merchant Silicon -- The Debate -- Arista and Merchant Silicon -- Arista Product ASICs -- 4. Fabric Speed -- 5. Arista Products -- Power -- Airflow -- Optics -- EOS -- Top-of-Rack Switches -- One-Gigabit Switches -- Ten-Gigabit Switches: 7100 Series -- Ten-Gigabit Switches: 7050 Series -- Chassis Switches -- Arista 7500 Series -- 6. Introduction to EOS -- SysDB -- Using EOS -- 7. Upgrading EOS -- 8. LLDP -- 9. Bash -- 10. SysDB -- 11. Python -- 12. MLAG -- MLAG Overview -- Configuring MLAG -- MLAG ISSU -- 13. Spanning Tree Protocol -- MST -- MST Terminology.

Contents note continued: Why Pruning VLANs Can Be Bad -- Spanning Tree and MLAG -- 14. First Hop Redundancy -- VRRP -- Basic Configuration -- Miscellaneous VRRP Stuff -- VARP -- Configuring VARP -- 15. Routin…