Software Defined Data Center

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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

  • Implement and Architect Cisco ACI – L3, L2 out, EPGs, tenants, BD, VRF, and Contracts
  • Expand Cisco ACI Fabric – Register new Leafs and Spines to existing infrastructure
  • ACI Upgrade –  Remediate major faults, multiple hops OS upgrade, APIC cluster with Leafs and Spines
  • ACI Assessment – Identify and remediate issues with current configuration
  • DC Architecture – ACI Multi-Site/Multi-Pod/OTV,  DR and IP subnet span 
  • ACI Programmability –  Postman, ACI toolkit, Cobra (Python), ACIrb (Ruby), Puppet, or Ansible
  • Cloud ACI with Service Chaining – Virtual FW, LB, and proxies to build a scalable secure fabric
  • ACI with VMware Integration – vCenter plug-in for ACI Fabric with vSphere web client, VDS Integration using APIC

Arista Universal Cloud Network (UCN)

  • Implement and Architect Arista UCN – CloudVision Portal(CVP), EVPNs, VXLAN, Macro Segmentation, MLAG
  • Expand Cisco UCN Fabric – Register new Leafs and Spines to existing infrastructure
  • UCN Upgrade – Smart System Upgrade (SSU), MLAG peer upgrade ISSU, multiple hops OS upgrade, CloudVision Controllers
  • UCN Assessment – Identify and remediate issues with current configuration
  • Cloud Connect Solution – Spine Transit, Spine Interconnect, Spine Peering
  • UCN Programmability – EOS Extensible APIs with JSON, Python, Ruby, Open Source Go, EOS Software Development Kit (SDK)

Arista Cloud Converged Fabric (CCF)

  • Implement and Architect new network design managed by Arista CCF Controller. 
  • Implement Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) with Arista CCF including Recorder Node, Analytics Node, and Service Node
  • Assessing existing infrastructure to create and implement an implementation strategy to migrate existing Data Center to Arista CCF managed solution, preconfiguring and preinstalling to minimize downtime in cutover
  • Expand Existing network infrastructure managed by CCF, connecting and registering switches to controller, and preconfiguring devices.
  • Upgrade network infrastructure managed by Arista CCF using fabric-wide software upgrades

Northbound APIs

  • Work with Application teams to ensure communication between applications and SDN Controllers