Hi Guys, I have a couple Arista DCS-7050S-52 which I’m looking to add to my home lab, the current software is pretty old: 4.10.6 I was wondering if someone can share the update image 4.18.x to get it updated, please! I really appreciate your time. Regards,
Newish to Arista. I have a pair of DCS-7280SR-48C6-M-F that I am getting ready to deploy. They’re currently running 4.18.4.2F, but that was loaded months ago in the lab. How do I know which version of code I should be running? Does Arista have a software selector tool or matrix to help guide customers to the most appropriate release? Thanks. Mike
Hi all; Very new to Arista; I have a dcs-7124sx and was wondering what the latest and greatest version of EOS I can safely upgrade this to? does anyone know if there is a limit? Docs say End of Life EOS 4.1.3; but i just performed full recover on this switch and its booting 4.6.2? Thus my question regarding the EOS version I can install. Thank You for any help…
Introduction As the networking industry continues riding the DevOps wave and network engineers become more comfortable using automation tools like Ansible and Salt, network still remains the most brittle piece of IT infrastructure. Partially this can be justified by the fact that network underpins all other areas of IT infrastructure stack – compute, storage and virtualisation. However we, as network engineers, have done very little to improve our confidence in networks and until now some of the biggest outages were caused by trivial network configuration mistakes. When software industry was facing similar challenges, the response was to create Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines –...
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Introduction There are multiple ways to setup a vEOS-Lab environment if you have a linux system or on hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, vCenter, VM Workstation, VM Fusion, Virtualbox, etc using the vmdk provided in the Software downloads page. But if you have a Windows machine or a Windows server, the vmdk will not be useful. So here are the steps on how you can convert the vmdk to a vhdx and create a vEOS VM on Hyper-V. Pre-requisites 1. Hyper-V Manager and Hyper-V 2. vEOS-Lab vmdk 3. Aboot ISO Instructions Steps 1. Download the vEOS vmdk for the EOS version...
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Here you can take a look to the integration of Arista with satellite units Comtech. Now we have the vision of all the satellite units connected to Arista. Regards Ronald Hurtado
This post is to help explain the different Software Download options for a particular EOS release. For recommendations on which train or version of EOS you should use, please take a look at our Software Lifecycle, and Recommended Release pages. This advice only concerns images located in the Active and Support Only Releases folder. Images from the Other Releases and EFT folders are not for general use. Those releases are available only for specific deployments, and should only be used when specifically recommended by Arista. In this case, I’m taking a look at EOS-4.17.1F and you can see from the...
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This is a great posting from on how to deploy Virtual SANs over an Arista underlay networks with the actual switch configurations. Here is the video on how to automate the deployment of a VSAN infrastructure from the same blog – VMware Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster Automated Deployments with PowerCLI Thought our user community would benefit from these blog postings. Happy reading!
A common question that users new to EOS have is concerning the high levels of memory utilisation seen on Arista switches (~70% utilised). Typically this is first flagged by the NMS and triggers a low memory warning or alarm. Unlike a traditional switching OS, EOS uses Linux page caching. Most free memory is used as a live cache and very low ‘free memory’ numbers are entirely normal, providing that enough memory is available from the buffers and cached memory for applications demanding more RAM. In this case, the OS is capable of freeing up memory from cache as processes demand it. Memory...
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We are about to upgrade our Arista switches to address the newest vulnerabilities that came out recently, and I have a few questions I’m hoping you can help with. Some of our switches are on older hardware. Is there a table somewhere that lists the highest code level a particular platform can run? Will all newer code releases run on all older hardware? Some of our switches are running very old code. Does SSU work on very old code (say, 4.5)? Assuming not, what is the upgrade path to get these switches up to 4.14…? Do I have to upgrade...
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Hi We want to upgrade EOS in sw’s. We want to automate this process. We can use solarwinds to execute a script or a phython script to do it. If someone can provide with template for it so we can test it in a lab sw and use it in production. Thanks Raj
Getting started with Puppet and EOS isn’t a difficult process. It involves taking advantage of the extensible nature of EOS. There are two primary extensions that need to be loaded in EOS in order for an Arista network element to be included in the Puppet ecosystem. Installation Installation of the agent on a switch includes adding the Ruby Client for eAPI (rbeapi) and the Puppet agent extensions, basic management configuration, including hostname, domain, and time synchronization (for SSL certificate management), and enabling eAPI access to the switch. Additionally, the Puppet master needs the appropriate modules installed (NetDev_stdlib and EOS) so you...
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Network software automation and intelligence is a passion we share as network engineering software developers at Intelligent Visibility, Inc. Creating innovative software solutions in the rising world of software-defined networking (SDN) can prove challenging. The source data that we require for our software is mostly located within the network device’s operating system. In the past accessing this source data has been a serious time investment mainly due to inconsistent API implementation types across different operating systems for many different hardware platforms.
If you would like to keep track of last 10 (or more, or less) configuration changes, here’s the event-handler code to do that: event-handler config-versioning trigger on-startup-config action bash FN=/mnt/flash/startup-config; LFN="`ls -1 $FN.*-* | tail -n 1`"; if [ -z "$LFN" -o -n "`diff -I 'last modified' $FN $LFN`" ]; then cp $FN $FN.`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`; ls -1r $FN.*-* | tail -n +11 | xargs -I % rm %; fi delay 0 Description: Every time the startup config gets changed, this event handler will be executed (“trigger on-startup-config”). You could increase the delay, if you wish, but now it’s engaged immediately...
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A leaf and spine fabric is challenging to monitor. The fabric spreads traffic across all the switches and links in order to maximize bandwidth. Unlike traditional hierarchical network designs, where a small number of links can be monitored to provide visibility, a leaf and spine network has no special links or switches where running CLI commands or attaching a probe would provide visibility. Even if it were possible to attach probes, the effective bandwidth of a leaf and spine network can be as high as a Petabit/second, well beyond the capabilities of current generation monitoring tools. The 2 minute video...
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Hi, Sorry for this weird request, but I am looking to know the exact string that EOS will give me in an show environment all command results output? <Snippet from show environmental all – all fans good in this case.> Airflow: front-to-back Fan Tray Status Speed ---------------- --------------- ------ 1 Ok 46% 2 Ok 46% 3 Ok 46% 4 Ok 46% 5 Ok 46% 6 Ok 46% Thank you much in advance! Mike
Arista does a great job posting the Recommended Minimum EOS Release versions however it requires partner level access (the information I have found thus far). I would like to programmatically access this information and I was hoping that Arista might have this information in a RestFUL API or at a minimum a public web link? Any help is appreciated. Thank you again, Mike Cotrone
Typically when a support case is opened the first item requested by the support engineer is more data. If all necessary data can be provided when a support case is opened it allows the support engineer to immediately begin looking at a customer issue, however it is often difficult to know exactly which information will be required. logGrab aims to simplify this complexity by automating the process reducing the typical time to resolution of service requests. logGrab is a simple bash script, when executed it collects all data typically required by TAC engineers and places it into a single timestamped ZIP...
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How-to implement virtual machines in Arista EOS Virtualization was first developed in the 1960s and used to partition mainframe hardware to improve utilization. Today, virtualization has many meanings and widely implemented on a variety of platforms. Arista EOS leveraging it’s unmodified Linux kernel and embracing open source standards based technology has brought the concept of operating system virtualization to Ethernet switching. The approach that Arista has taken is to utilize Kernel-based Vitual Machines (KVM). Turning the Linux kernel into a hypervisor by loading a kernel module which provides the core virtualization infrastructure, a processor specific module (Intel or AMD) which...
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