7060X and 7260X Series | Platform Overview

Software Driven Cloud Networking

Arista Software Driven Cloud Networking (SDCN), combines the principles that have made cloud computing the unstoppable force

that it is: automation, self service provisioning, and linear scaling of both performance and economics coupled with the trend in

Software Defined Networking that delivers: network virtualization, custom programmability, simplified architectures, and lower capital

expenditure. This combination creates a best-in-class software foundation for maximizing the value of the network to both the

enterprise and service provider data center.

Smart System Upgrade

Smart System Upgrade is a network application designed to address one of the most complicated and challenging tasks facing data

center administrators - network infrastructure maintenance. Changes to the underlying network infrastructure can affect large numbers

of devices and cause significant outages. SSU provides a fully customizable suite of features that tightly couples data center

infrastructure to technology partners allowing for intelligent insertion and removal, programmable updates to software releases and

open integration with application and infrastructure elements.

Advanced Event Management (AEM)

Simplifying the overall operations, AEM provides the tools to customize alerts and actions. AEM is a powerful and flexible set of tools to

automate tasks and customize the behavior of EOS and the operation of the overall data center switching infrastructure. AEM allows

operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and automate actions based

on changing network conditions.

Precise Data Analysis

Arista Latency Analyzer (LANZ) is an integrated feature of EOS. LANZ provides precise real-time monitoring of micro-burst and

congestion events before they impact applications, with the ability to identify the sources and capture affected traffic for analysis.

Virtualization

Supporting next-generation virtualized data centers requires tight integration with orchestration tools and emerging encapsulation

technologies such as VXLAN. The 7060X & 7260X build on the valuable tools already provided by the Arista VM Tracer suite to integrate

directly into encapsulated environments. Offering a wire-speed gateway between VXLAN and traditional L2/3 environments, they

make integration of non-VXLAN aware devices including servers, firewalls and load-balancers seamless and provide the ability to

leverage VXLAN as a standards based L2 extension technology for non-MPLS environments.

Uni ed Forwarding Table

Cloud network scalability is directly impacted by the size of a switches forwarding tables. In many systems a 'one size fits all' approach is

adopted using discrete fixed size tables for each of the common types of forwarding entry. The Arista 7060X and 7260X leverage a

common Unified Forwarding Table for the L2 MAC, L3 Routing, L3 Host and IP Multicast forwarding entries, which can be partitioned

per entry type. The ideal size of each partition varies depending on the network deployment scenario. The flexibility of the UFT coupled

with the range of pre-defined configuration profiles available on the 7060X and 7260X ensures optimal resource allocation for all

network topologies and network virtualization technologies.

Arista 7060X 1RU Rear View: Rear to Front air ow (blue)

High Availability

The Arista 7260X and 7060X series switches were designed for high availability

from both a software and hardware perspective. Key high availability features

include:

• 1+1 hot-swappable power supplies and four N+1 hot-swap fans

• Color coded PSU’s and fans

• Live software patching

• Self healing software with Stateful Fault Repair (SFR)

• Smart System Upgrade (SSU) and Accelerated Software Update (ASU)

• Up to 64 10/25/40/50/100GbE ports per link aggregation group

• Multi-chassis LAG for active/active L2 multi-pathing

• 128-way ECMP routing for load balancing and redundancy

Arista 7060X 1RU Rear View: Front to Rear air ow (red)

Arista 7260X 2RU Rear View: Rear to Front air ow (blue)