Book description
Arista Networks has become a key player in software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center, storage, and computing environments, and is poised to make an impact in other areas as well. In this updated edition, renowned trainer, consultant, and technical author Gary A. Donahue (Network Warrior) provides an in-depth, objective guide to Arista’s products. You’ll learn why the company’s network switches, software products, and Extensible Operating System (EOS) are so effective.
Anyone who has or is pursuing networking certification (especially Arista’s own!) or who is just curious about why Arista is better will benefit from this book, especially entrenched administrators, engineers, or architects tasked with building an Arista network. Pick up this in-depth guide and find out how Arista can help both you and your company.
Topics in the second edition include:
- Configuration Management: config sessions, config replace, and config checkpoints
- CloudVision: Arista’s management, workload orchestration, workflow automation, and configuration tool
- VXLAN: Layer 2 overlay networking
- FlexRoute: two million routes in hardware
- Tap Aggregation: make your switch or blade into a Tap Aggregation device
- Advanced Mirroring: mirror to a port-channel or even the CPU
- eAPI: Arista’s fabulous extended Application Programmable Interface
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Why Arista?
- 2. Network Designs
- 3. Buffers
- 4. Merchant Silicon
- 5. Fabric Speed
- 6. Arista Products
- 7. SysDB
- 8. Introduction to EOS
- 9. Configuration Management
- 10. Upgrading EOS
- 11. Link Layer Discovery Protocol
- 12. Bash
- 13. Zero-Touch Provisioning
- 14. Aboot
- 15. CloudVision
- 16. The EOS Extension System
- 17. Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
- 18. MLAG
- 19. First-Hop Redundancy
- 20. FlexRoute
- 21. VXLAN
- 22. Email
- 23. LANZ
- 24. Scheduler
- 25. tcpdump and Advanced Mirroring
- 26. Tap Aggregation
- 27. Event Manager
- 28. Event Monitor
- 29. Troubleshooting
- 30. eAPI
- 31. Containers
- 32. vEOS
- 33. Aristacisms
- Index
Product information
- Title: Arista Warrior, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2019
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491953044
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