Arista Networks Platform Reviews

The solution is primarily used for colocation services, as an extension for various platforms, and also mainly for new setups of data centers. They've played a role in top-of-the-rack features and also for data center extensions like VXLAN. 

We have users that use Arista for their financial software testing due to their low latencies.

The initial installation is very straightforward.

A company can scale the solution if it needs to.

The solution is very stable.

The solution needs to improve their product range. They've added a few items, however, they're a bit of a johnny-come-lately to a lot of other competitors in the space and they need to compete for more for the attention of various sizes of business. They basically need to include more models in their offering.

The one thing they lack is Microsegmentation solutions. In contrast, Cisco offers that. It has something called ACI, and we lose out on contracts due to the fact that Arista doesn't have a similar offering. Clients would like to have that on hand as when clients deal with the Cloud base, Microsoft segmentation can be managed with, in a sense, Analytics.

I've been dealing with the solution since 2017. It's been a few years now.

The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any stability issues with it for the most part. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's good.

The solution can scale if you need it to. 

Technical support has been very good. They're quite helpful and responsive. We're satisfied with the level of support we get. For solutions like Nutanix and Arista, I'm never disappointed with the service we get.

The initial setup is mostly straightforward. It just really depends on the scope. There are different discussions that need to precede the installation of it, so that might take a week or two. You still talk to the customer, you make a design, you get the approval, and all of that. However, once you have all of that, if you take that implementation, you're looking at probably, one day to one-and-a-half days just to configure everything. The configuration is very important. Once you have the configuration, putting it in with the switches take a minimum amount of time. 

You likely need two to three people to handle the implementation.

Arista is largely a cloud player catering to the Googles, the Facebooks and all the big players. Price-wise we have a disadvantage pitching Arista, especially against somebody like Cisco who has been in the sector for a long time. We are often fighting Cisco from the pricing perspective with their larger productions and licenses.

In terms of licensing, there are costs related to both licensing and support. We pay for licensing yearly.

We are a distributor of the solution.

I would recommend the solution. Overall, I would rate it at a nine out of ten.

We use it more like a complete network operations center.

It provides telemetry and visibility for many metrics that are not supported by most of the other vendors. Out of the box, no third party solutions are needed.

CloudVision is the central management, and all the features installed are from the same vendor. I like that telemetry and metrics are available. Also, the provisioning feature and all these features are from the same vendor.

The cost of Arista Networks Platform is high; it is more expensive than other networking solutions.

Also, the community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more.

Maybe, if they had out-of-the-box NetFlow features to integrate with third party solutions, it will be good.

I've been working with it for about 10 months now as a system integrator.

We sell physical appliances to our customers for their on-premises deployment.

One of our future customers will use Arista Networks Platform to support around 1,500 employees.

Two technicians would be sufficient for deployment because with Arista Networks Platform, you have the Zero Touch Provisioning feature. You have simple management, which reduces the number of hands needed to work with the solution.

Cost wise, Arista Networks Platform is more expensive than other networking solutions.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this solution at nine.

The primary use case for Arista is data center networking. We utilize it to meet certain application requirements, specifically those needing low latency.

The most valuable features of Arista include low latency, scalability, and sustainability of the products. We're using Arista to provide faster response times to clients using our applications, thanks to its low latency. 

Other benefits include manageability, allowing us to manage the entire data center network from a single console, and security, enabling us to deploy security policies.

Currently, Arista is too costly for its customers. Feature-wise, it addresses most customer requirements. However, we sometimes face challenges when integrating with proprietary protocols and solutions from other OEMs, like Cisco.

I have been working with Arista solutions for the last one or two years.

There is zero maintenance required, which signifies a stable solution.

Scalability is a key feature of Arista, owing to the possibilities to manage the entire data center network from a single console.

I am not the right person to evaluate the tech support, but according to my team’s feedback, we receive extended support from the Arista team.

Positive

The initial setup was straightforward due to the zero-touch provisioning feature in CloudVision. We prepare based on the availability of required data and we can easily deploy entire solutions.

We design and plan the implementation based on customer requirements, as we are system integrators.

A higher procurement cost doesn’t significantly affect ROI as it is usually higher accordingly.

Arista products are perceived as costly, especially compared to competitors like Cisco.

We work with Cisco products as well. Cisco caters to all market segments while Arista generally focuses on enterprise-level solutions.

I recommend Arista solutions based on customer requirements. Being system integrators, we engage with customers to understand various aspects of their application requirements and suggest the best fit solutions. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Arista as a nine.