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 real-time 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, 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
  • Risk and compliance management providing a real-time view of bug and security vulnerability exposure; and patch and lifecycle management
  • Centralized API gateway for both northbound and southbound integrations, leveraging OpenConfig, gRPC, and REST APIs

CloudVision features some domain-specific capabilities designed for multiple operator types, managing Day-0 through to Day-2 operations.

Campus

  • Campus dashboard and landing page – designed to present key wired and wireless client information to the user to assist with everyday operations in the campus
  • Quick actions – simple point and click guided workflows, including: provisioning port profiles via front panel port views; and diagnostic workflows for interface cycling and cable tests
  • Endpoint overview – search for wired and wireless endpoints connected to the network, view telemetry about these endpoints, and understand their client journey – in real-time or over a time continuum

Enterprise WAN with CV Pathfinder

  • Multi-domain visualization – network topology in geographic view providing visibility of data center, campus, branch, and public cloud networks, and how they connect together via the WAN
  • Application identification – identify and classify applications into virtual topologies with the Pathfinder service and monitor application usage with real-time telemetry
  • Adaptive overlays – visualize Adaptive Virtual Topologies created by the Pathfinder service, along with Dynamic Path Selection tunnels

Application Observability with CV UNO

  • Workload application and infrastructure visibility – leveraging the multi-modal power of NetDL sourcing information from applications and external systems, such as the hypervisor, to provide a dynamic application-to-network graph with real-time and historical data
  • Proactive risk analysis – evaluate potential network changes before deployment, ensuring operational resilience and stability
  • Real-time impact analysis – assist operators determine whether performance issues stem from the network or the application, expediting resolution and simplifying coordination across operations teams

Zero Trust Networking Services with Multi-domain Segmentation Services (MSS)

  • Endpoint identification and tagging – manage microperimeter by dynamically identifying endpoints and workloads and applying tags used for policy enforcement
  • Traffic mapping service – create and manage zero trust traffic policies based on network observation and recommendations
  • Continuous traffic and policy monitoring – real-time visibility of policy violations and reporting of flows affected by traffic drops, providing vital intelligence of how the zero trust policies are impacting endpoints

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 by integrating with CMDB (ServiceNow) and IPAM (InfloBlox) tools, 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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