Atf 3 q15-1 - introduction
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This document summarizes the agenda for the Autumn 2015 Arista Technical Forum. The forum will cover approaches to automating and scaling cloud network infrastructure through software-driven solutions and workflow automation. Presentations will discuss transitioning to automated cloud networks, scaling software-driven networks, streamlining virtual network control, and delivering cloud-scale automation with Arista. The final presentation will introduce Arista's CloudVision product for abstracting hardware and automating network provisioning, configuration, and management.
Atf 3 q15-1 - introduction
- 1. Technical Forum Welcome to ATF#8 Autumn 2015
- 2. Technical Forum Welcome to ATF #8! Welcome to theAutumnAristaTech Forum • Second of 12 events this season • Covering Stockholm to CapeTown and Dublin to Moscow What’s it about? • Technology show case – by techies, for techies • Opportunity to connect with otherArista users and the team Interactivity welcomed!
- 4. Technical Forum Today’s Agenda 10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Day 10:15 Product Update & Technology Preview 10:45 Transitioning to an Automated, Software Driven Cloud Network 11:15 Break 11:45 Scaling the the Software Driven Cloud Network 12:15 Streamlining and AutomatingVirtual Network Control 12:45 Lunch 13:45 Solutions for Scaling the Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure 14:30 Delivering Cloud Scale Workflow Automation, Control andVisibility withArista 15:15 Wrap Up 15:30 Finish
- 5. Technical Forum Do-It-Yourself Custom development for integration Software development resources & approach DevOps Leveraging existing tools (Puppet, Chef etc) Integration & customization via scripts Turnkey Limited solutions today, focus on legacy models Customers need turnkey solution for cloud-automation! Approaches to Network Automation Cloud Titan High Tech Enterprise / SP Traditional Enterprise / SP 10,000 network elements per engineer 1,000 network elements per engineer 100 network elements per engineer
- 6. Technical Forum Much more than DevOps Traditional Enterprise Private Cloud Web Scale Hardware choices Enterprise SKUs Highly Coupled Generic off the shelf Decoupled Limited custom All Open Standards Procurement model Traditional Supplier Managed Direct/ Contract Redundancy model Hardware based Software based Software based (global) Required HW availability 99.999% + 99.9% - 99.999% 99% - 99.9% Automation Limited to blocks Vendor specific Compute,Storage and Network integration Complete integration with DC as a whole Refresh cycle 5-7 years in bulk Deployment led Continuous Scale per capita resource 10-100 devices 100-1000 devices 1000s - 10000s devices Adapted from Microsoft
- 8. Technical Forum Continuous Development Introduce New Retire Old V1 V1 V2 V2 V3 V3 V4 An evergreen infrastructure
- 9. Technical Forum Source: facebook.com A quiet life… § Vanilla IP networks § Leaf-Spine topologies § Box level redundancy § Repeatable elastic units § Robust APIs § Provider like thinking
- 10. Technical Forum Source: facebook.com That scales beyond your dreams!
- 11. Technical Forum We know what’s required § Decouple hardware stacks § Simplify network designs § Abstract HW and topology from software § Automated provisioning, orchestration
- 14. Technical Forum So why aren’t we all doing this already?
- 15. Technical Forum $84,000.00 $168,000.00 $252,000.00 $336,000.00 $420,000.00 $504,000.00 $588,000.00 $672,000.00 15 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 Cost of an outage Minutes A few distractions …. § 59% of F500s experience ≥1.6hrs downtime per week • (Dunn & Bradstreet) § Average outage lasts 200 minutes • (IT Process Institute) § Downtime average 87hours/year • (Gartner) § Downtime costs $5600/minute • (Ponemon Institute) § 49% of outages are caused by human error • (IEEE)
- 16. Technical Forum 80% of IT activity, time and dollars are spent keeping the lights on (Forbes)
- 17. Technical Forum Introducing CloudVision § Abstraction of hardware and topology from orchestration • Ability to flex and adapt northbound and southbound § Turnkey core services • Template driven provisioning/replacement • Ongoing configuration management and compliance • Network-wide upgrades and rollbacks • Inventorymanagement
- 18. Technical Forum There is a lot at stake § Faster service delivery § Lower costs of operation and change § Less disruptive innovation cycles § Reduced risk to business § More rewarding environment for technology teams