Arista Warrior

Name: Arista Warrior
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ISBN: 9781449314538

ISBN-10: 1449314538

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Edition: 2012

Authors: Gary A. Donahue

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A relative newcomer in the data center 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 lineup of networking hardware, as well as its underlying EOS operating system.Donahue gives special attention to Arista-specific features such as SysDB, MLAG, Latency Analyzer (LANZ), VM Tracer, and Zero-Touch Provisioning. You’ll also learn about Arista’s hardware advantages, such as merchant silicon, low-latency networking and power consumption.Is Arista right for your data center? Pick up this guide and find out. Arista switches all…

Book details

List price: $69.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Gary A. Donahue is a working consultant who has been in the computer industry for 25 years. Gary has worked as a programmer, mainframe administrator, Technical Assistance Center engineer, network administrator, network designer, and consultant. Gary has worked as the Director of Network Infrastructure for a national consulting company and has been the president of his own New Jersey consulting company; GAD Technologies.



Preface



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



Buffers



Merchant Silicon


The Debate


Arista and Merchant Silicon


Arista Product ASICs



Fabric Speed



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



Introduction to EOS


SysDB


Using EOS



Upgrading EOS



LLDP



Bash



SysDB



Python



MLAG


MLAG Overview


Configuring MLAG


MLAG ISSU



Spanning Tree Protocol


MST


MST Terminology


Why Pruning VLANs Can Be Bad


Spanning Tree and MLAG



First Hop Redundancy


VRRP


Basic Configuration


Miscellaneous VRRP Stuff


VARP


Configuring VARP



Routing


RIP


OSPF


BGP


So What?



Access Lists


Basic IP ACLs


Advanced IP ACLs


MAC ACLs


Applying ACLs



Quality of Service


Configuring QoS


Configuring Trust


Configuring Defaults


Mapping


Interface Shaping


Shaping tx-queues


Prioritizing tx-queues


Showing QoS Information


Petra-Based Switches


Trident-Based Switches


FM4000-Based Switches


In Conclusion



Aboot



Email



LANZ



sFlow


Configuring sFlow


Showing sFlow Information



VM Tracer


CDP Weirdness



Scheduler



TCP Dump


Unix


EOS



Zero-Touch Provisioning


Cancelling ZTP


Disabling ZTP


Booting with ZTP



event-handler


Description


Configuration



Event Monitor


Using Event Monitor


ARP


MAC


Route


Advanced Usage


Configuring Event Monitor



Extending EOS



CloudVision


Description


Configuring and Using CloudVision


Groups


Monitoring CloudVision



Troubleshooting


Performance Monitoring


Tracing Agents (Debugging)


Useful Examples


Turn It Off!


Arista Support



Aristacisms


Marketing Glossary


Arista-Specific Configuration Items


There is no duplex statement in EOS


Watch out for those comments!


Some routing protocols are shut down by default


Trunk groups


Management VRF


And Finally…


Index