Enhanced Features for High Performance Networks

The Arista 7300X Series delivers a suite of advanced traffic control and monitoring features to improve the agility of modern high

performance environments, with solutions for data monitoring, precise timing and next-generation virtualization.

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.

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 7300 Series builds 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, the 7300

Series makes integration of non-VXLAN aware devices including servers, firewalls and load-balancers seamless and provides the ability

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

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.

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 7300X leverages 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 7300X ensures optimal resource allocation for all network topologies and

network virtualization technologies. Algorithmic Longest Prefix Match (ALPM) allows for the shared UFT to be expanded to contain up

to 128K longest prefix match (LPM) route entries.

Designed for High Availability and Manageability

The Arista 7300 Series are designed for continuous operations with system wide monitoring of both hardware and software

components, simple serviceability and provisioning to prevent single points of failure. The hardware supports high-availability with

hot-swap of all components with redundant supervisors, power supplies, fabric and cooling modules. Fabric redundancy provides

deterministic degradation and integrated reversible fan systems for dynamic temperature control combined with N+1 redundancy.

Each of the 7300 Series offers power redundancy that supports both power source and power supply redundancy.

The Arista EOS software enabled stateful failover (*) between the dual redundant supervisors as well as self-healing stateful fault

containment (SFC), stateful fault repair (SFR) and live patching through in-service-software updates to help ensure continuous service.

The Arista 7300 lowers total cost of ownership as it is designed to be efficient with power per port as low as 3W per 10GbE port which

combined with reversible cooling to for both leaf and spine data center deployment produces the most reliable, dense and power

efficient modular switch.

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* Not currently supported in EOS