CloudVision® is Arista’s modern, multi-domain management platform that leverages cloud networking principles to deliver a simplified NetOps experience. Unlike traditional domain-specific management solutions, CloudVision enables zero-touch network operations with consistent operations enterprise-wide, helping to break down the complexity of siloed management approaches.

As Arista’s platform for Network as-a-Service, CloudVision is designed to bring OpEx efficiency through automation across the entire network lifecycle - from design, to operations, to support and ongoing maintenance.

CloudVision - Arista’s Platform for Network as-a-Service

Featured Video: CloudVision Overview

CloudVision is built on a Network Data Lake (NetDL) architecture that leverages realtime state to provide an abstraction of the physical network to a broader, network-wide perspective allowing for a more efficient approach for several operational and network telemetry capabilities including the following highlights:

  • Multi-domain scope, bringing consistent network operations to Data Center, Campus, WAN/Interconnect, Media & Entertainment, and multi-cloud use-cases
  • Cloud-native architecture, offered with the same feature set across both cloud service (SaaS) and on-prem appliance (virtual or physical) deployment options.
  • Real-time state streaming for network telemetry and analytics - a modern approach to replace legacy polling per device
  • State repository, analytics engines and telemetry views to provide an unprecedented level of granularity in real-time monitoring and historic network state for forensic troubleshooting
  • Cognitive analytics, leveraging the rich NetDL data source as the basis for training AI/ML models to generate better recommendations and insights for operators
  • Turn-key automation with CloudVision Studios for initial and ongoing provisioning, ZTP as-a-Service, configuration management and network-wide change control–including automated upgrades, network rollback, and network snapshots
  • Compliance dashboard for security audit, patch and lifecycle management
  • Support for the Unified edge, with wired and wireless views and dashboards, including IoTvision™
  • NetDevOps workflows, providing extensibility for CloudVision to integrate into a broader continuous integration (CI) pipeline
  • Cloud Tracer™ for visibility into the availability of network connectivity and services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments
  • Macro-Segmentation Services to provide automated and seamless service insertion with integrations by partner security platforms
  • IP Broadcast operations, including specific dashboards and Media Control Services (MCS) integration with technology partners
  • Centralized API gateway for both northbound and southbound integrations, leveraging OpenConfig, gRPC, and REST APIs

Ecosystem Integration

Arista’s customers are trying to orchestrate workflows across their physical and virtual infrastructure. Arista CloudVision is the platform for deeper integration with a broad array of Arista’s ecosystem partner solutions, including Ansible, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, VMWare NSX™ and many others.

CloudVisionⓇ Universal Network ObservabilityTM(CV UNOTM) is Arista’s cutting-edge, multi-domain network observability platform that fuses application visibility with CloudVision’s robust network telemetry. This integration delivers unparalleled insights into application and workload performance across data centers, campuses, and wide area networks. Powered by NetDL and AVA-driven analysis, CV UNO enables proactive diagnostics and prescriptive recommendations, accelerating issue identification and resolution. This ground-breaking solution minimizes human error, streamlines troubleshooting and ensures precise causal analysis of network events and their impact on application delivery.

Key CV UNO benefits:

  1. Integrated Workload Application and Infrastructure Visibility
    CV UNO creates a comprehensive application-to-network graph that offers a dynamic, historical view of the network and application environment, ensuring continuous, in-depth visibility into application flows at any moment.
  2. Proactive Risk Analysis
    Leveraging CV UNO’s application intelligence, CloudVision’s change control workflows (including AVD) rigorously evaluate potential network changes before deployment, ensuring operational resilience and stability.
  3. Realtime Impact Analysis
    Without the need for host-based agents, CV UNO swiftly helps operators determine whether performance issues stem from the network or the application, expediting resolution and simplifying coordination across operations teams.

CV UNO - Arista’s Platform for Network Observability

Featured Video: Introducing CloudVisionⓇ Universal Network ObservabilityTM(CV UNOTM)

Available as a premium feature on Arista CloudVision as-a-Service (CVaaS), CV UNO deploys one or more strategically placed CV UNO Sensor VMs on-premises to collect, normalize, and meticulously curate flow and SNMP data from diverse sources, including physical and virtual compute and third-party network devices. This comprehensive data is seamlessly integrated with CloudVision’s deep network state insights and stored in NetDL.

CV UNO leverages advanced machine intelligence to analyze this enriched data, identifying application and topology-aware correlations, event patterns, behavior changes, and flow anomalies. This capability dramatically accelerates impact analysis and issue resolution, delivering an unparalleled 360° observability experience through the following key features:

  • Private cloud visibility: API integration with VMware vCenter enhances visibility by incorporating application, flow and event data into NetDL.
  • Application Discovery: Automated workflows discover and classify applications, providing a clear overview of the application environment.
  • Application Dashboard: A centralized view of application health, performance, services, critical events, top bandwidth consumers and more.
  • Application Dependency Mapping: Visualizes interaction between application services with flow metrics, enabling faster and more accurate diagnostics.
  • Application Flow graph: Displays bandwidth-aware, directional inter-service application flows for deeper insights.
  • DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) Integration: Support the collection of end-to-end TCP analysis and flow data, enhancing visibility and troubleshooting capabilities.
  • Enhanced 3rd Party Device Visibility: Extends support for flow data collection from third-party devices, augmenting CloudVision’s SNMP-based third-party device integration.
  • End-to-End Visualization: Elevates CV’s network topology visualization to include physical and virtual end hosts, revealing how applications connect to the network and pinpointing potential bottlenecks or performance issues at the flow level.
  • Enhanced Fault / Anomaly Detection: Augments CloudVision’s event correlation, inference and alerting algorithms by incorporating application context, events, end-to-end TCP analysis into its network-centric framework.

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