Arista 7060X Series

Overview:

Increased adoption of high performance servers coupled with applications using higher bandwidth is accelerating the need for dense 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switching in both leaf and spine tiers of modern networks. The Arista 7060X and 7260X Series are purpose built high performance, high density, fixed configuration, data center switches with wire speed layer 2 and layer 3 features, combined with advanced features for software defined cloud networking and emerging requirements. The Arista 7060X and 7260X are key components of the Arista portfolio of data center switches delivering a rich choice of interface speed and density allowing customers to seamlessly evolve from existing 10GbE and 40GbE to 25GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE.

The 7060CX-32S and 7260CX-64 support a flexible combination of speeds including 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G in compact form factors that allows customers to design networks to accommodate the myriad different applications and east-west traffic patterns found in modern data centers whilst providing investment protection.

The 7260QX Series are purpose built high density and low power 40GbE systems that enable cost effective solutions with flexible and scalable resources for layer 2 and layer 3 designs.

Combined with Arista EOS both the 7060X and 7260X Series deliver advanced features for cloud, big data, virtualized and traditional data centers.

Arista EOS

The Arista 7060X and 7260X run the same Arista EOS software as all Arista products, simplifying network administration. Arista EOS is a modular switch operating system with a unique state sharing architecture that cleanly separates switch state from protocol processing and application logic. Built on top of a standard Linux kernel, all EOS processes run in their own protected memory space and exchange state through an in-memory database. This multi-process state sharing architecture provides the foundation for in-service-software updates and self-healing resiliency.

With Arista EOS, advanced monitoring and automation capabilities such as Zero Touch Provisioning, VMTracer and Linux based tools can be run natively on the switch with the powerful x86 CPU subsystem.

Product Highlights

Performance 7060CX-32S: 32x QSFP100 and 2x SFP+ 7260CX-64: 64x QSFP100 and 2 x SFP+ 7260QX-64: 64x QSFP+ and 2x SFP+ Flexible 40GbE and 100GbE support Quad 10GbE or 25GbE mode support Up to 12.8 terabits per second Up to 9.5 billion packets per second Wire speed L2 and L3 forwarding 7060CX-32S latency from 450ns Data Center Optimized Design 7060CX-32S typical power of under 7W per 100GbE port for lower cost of ownership Over 93% efficient power supplies 1+1 redundant & hot-swappable power N+1 redundant & hot-swappable fans Front-to-rear or rear-to-front cooling Tool less rails for simple installation Cloud Networking Ready VXLAN and VM Tracer OpenFlow, DirectFlow and eAPI 136K MAC entries 128K IPv4 Routes 104K IPv4 Host Routes Up to 64MB Dynamic Buffer Allocation

Resilient Control Plane High Performance x86 CPU 4GB DRAM User applications can run in a VM Advanced Provisioning & Monitoring CloudVision Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) LANZ for microburst detection DANZ Advanced Mirroring for visibility sFlow Self-configure and recover from USB Arista Extensible Operating System Single binary image for all products Fine-grained truly modular network OS Stateful Fault Containment (SFC) Stateful Fault Repair (SFR) Full Access to Linux shell and tools Extensible platform - bash, python, C++

Benefits:

High Availability

The Arista 7260X and 7060X series switches were designed for high availability from both a software and hardware perspective. Key high availability features include:

• 1+1 hot-swappable power supplies and four N+1 hot-swap fans
• Color coded PSU’s and fans
• Live software patching
• Self healing software with Stateful Fault Repair (SFR)
• Smart System Upgrade (SSU) and Accelerated Software Update (ASU)
• Up to 64 10/25/40/50/100GbE ports per link aggregation group
• Multi-chassis LAG for active/active L2 multi-pathing
• 128-way ECMP routing for load balancing and redundancy

Dynamic Buffer Allocation

In cut-through mode, the Arista 7060X and 7260X switches forward packets with a latency of 450 nanoseconds to 550 nanoseconds. Upon congestion, the packets are buffered in shared packet memory that has a total size of 16 MBytes per port group. Unlike other architectures that have fixed per-port packet memory, the 7060X and 7260X Series use Dynamic Buffer Allocation (DBA) to allocate packet memory to a single port for lossless forwarding.

Enhanced Features for High Performance Networks

The Arista 7060X and 7260X deliver a suite of advanced traffic control and monitoring features to improve the agility of modern high performance environments, with solutions for data monitoring, and next-generation virtualization.

Scaling Data Center Performance

The Arista 7060X and 7260X series deliver line rate switching at layer 2 and layer 3 to enable faster and simpler network designs for data centers that dramatically lowers the network capital and operational expenses. When used in conjunction with the Arista 7000 series of fixed and modular switches it allows networks to scale to over 27,000 10G/25G servers in low-latency two-tier networks that provide predictable and consistent application performance. The flexibility of the L2 and L3 multi-path design options combined with support for open standards provides architectural flexibility, scalability and network wide virtualization. Arista EOS advanced features provide control and visibility with single point of management.

Maximum Flexibility for Scale Out Network Designs

Scale out network designs enable solutions to start small and evolve over time. A simple two-way design can grow as far as 64-way without significant changes to the architecture. The Arista 7060X and 7260X include enhancements for flexible scale-out designs:

• 128-way ECMP and 64-way MLAG to provide scalable designs and balance traffic evenly across large scale 2 tier leaf-spine designs
• Custom hash algorithms for efficient hashing, persistent hashing and custom lookups for tunneled protocols.
• Flexible allocation of L2 and L3 forwarding table resources for more design choice
• Wide choice of dense 10G/25G/40G/100G interfaces for multi-speed flexibility
• VXLAN routing, bridging and gateway capability for physical to virtualization communication in next generation data center designs
• DANZ, sFlow and multi-port mirroring to detect micro-burst congestion and provide network wide visibility and monitoring

Software Driven Cloud Networking

Arista Software Driven Cloud Networking (SDCN), combines the principles that have made cloud computing the unstoppable force that it is: automation, self service provisioning, and linear scaling of both performance and economics coupled with the trend in Software Defined Networking that delivers: network virtualization, custom programmability, simplified architectures, and lower capital expenditure. This combination creates a best-in-class software foundation for maximizing the value of the network to both the enterprise and service provider data center. A new architecture for the most mission-critical location within the IT infrastructure that simplifies management and provisioning, speeds up service delivery, lowers costs and creates opportunities for competitive differentiation, while putting control and visibility back in the hands of the network and systems administrators.

Virtualization

Supporting next-generation virtualized data centers requires tight integration with orchestration tools and emerging encapsulation technologies such as VXLAN. The 7060X & 7260X build on the valuable tools already provided by the Arista VM Tracer suite to integrate directly into encapsulated environments. Offering a wire-speed gateway between VXLAN and traditional L2/3 environments, they make integration of non-VXLAN aware devices including servers, firewalls and load-balancers seamless and provide the ability to leverage VXLAN as a standards based L2 extension technology for non-MPLS environments.

Advanced Event Management (AEM)

Simplifying the overall operations, AEM provides the tools to customize alerts and actions. AEM is a powerful and flexible set of tools to automate tasks and customize the behavior of EOS and the operation of the overall data center switching infrastructure. AEM allows operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and automate actions based on changing network conditions.

Unified Forwarding Table

Cloud network scalability is directly impacted by the size of a switches forwarding tables. In many systems a 'one size fits all' approach is adopted using discrete fixed size tables for each of the common types of forwarding entry. The Arista 7060X and 7260X leverage a common Unified Forwarding Table for the L2 MAC, L3 Routing, L3 Host and IP Multicast forwarding entries, which can be partitioned per entry type. The ideal size of each partition varies depending on the network deployment scenario. The flexibility of the UFT coupled with the range of pre-defined configuration profiles available on the 7060X and 7260X ensures optimal resource allocation for all network topologies and network virtualization technologies.

Features:

Layer 2 Features 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol Rapid Per VLAN Spanning Tree (RPVST+) 4096 VLANs Q-in-Q 802.3ad Link Aggregation/LACP 64 ports/channel 64 groups per system Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) Uses IEEE 802.3ad LACP 64 ports per MLAG Custom LAG Hashing Resilient LAG Hashing 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol 802.3x Flow Control Jumbo Frames (9216 Bytes) IGMP v1/v2/v3 snooping Storm Control Layer 3 Features Routing Protocols: OSPF, OSPFv3, BGP, MP-BGP, IS-IS, and RIPv2 128-way Equal Cost Multipath Routing (ECMP) Resilient ECMP Routes VRF BFD Route Maps IGMP v2/v3 PIM-SM / PIM-SSM Anycast RP (RFC 4610) VRRP Virtual ARP (VARP) Policy Based Routing (DirectFlow) * uRPF RAIL Security Features IPv4 / IPv6 Ingress & Egress ACLs using L2, L3, L4 fields MAC ACLs ACL Drop Logging ACL Counters 802.1X Control Plane Protection (CPP) DHCP Relay / Snooping MAC Security TACACS+ RADIUS Virtualization Support VXLAN Gateway (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-01) VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint VXLAN Routing * VXLAN Bridging VMTracer VMware Integration VMware vSphere support VM Auto Discovery VM Adaptive Segmentation VM Host View Advanced Monitoring and Provisioning Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) Latency Analyzer and Microburst Detection (LANZ) Configurable Congestion Notification (CLI, Syslog) Streaming Events (GPB Encoded) Capture/Mirror of congested traffic Advanced Monitoring and TAP Aggregation (DANZ) Port Mirroring M:N (4 sessions) L2/3/4 Filtering Port Channel source and destination Mirror to CPU * Advanced Event Management suite (AEM) CLI Scheduler Event Manager Event Monitor Linux tools Integrated packet capture/analysis with TCPDump RFC 3176 sFlow Restore & Configure from USB Blue Beacon LED for system identification Software Defined Networking (SDN) Openflow 1.0* Openflow 1.3 * Arista DirectFlow* eAPI OpenStack Neutron Support IEEE 1588 PTP (Transparent Clock and Boundary Clock) * Quality of Service (QoS) Features Up to 8 queues per port Strict priority queueing 802.1p based classification Per-Priority Flow Control (PFC) Data Center Bridging Extensions (DCBX) DSCP based classification and remarking Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) - 7060X only 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmissions Selection (ETS) * ACL based DSCP Marking ACL based Policing Per port MMU Configuration Policing/Shaping Rate limiting Audio Video Bridging (AVB) *

Network Management CloudVision 100/1000 Management Port RS-232 Serial Console Port USB Port SNMP v1, v2, v3 Management over IPv6 Telnet and SSHv2 Syslog AAA Industry Standard CLI Extensibility Linux Tools Bash shell access and scripting RPM support Custom kernel modules Programmatic access to system state Python C++ Native KVM/QEMU Standards Compliance 802.1D Bridging and Spanning Tree 802.1p QoS/COS 802.1Q VLAN Tagging 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP 802.3ab 1000BASE-T 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC 4861 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) RFC 4862 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration RFC 4443 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification SNMP MIBs RFC 3635 EtherLike-MIB RFC 3418 SNMPv2-MIB RFC 2863 IF-MIB RFC 2864 IF-INVERTED-STACK-MIB RFC 2096 IP-FORWARD-MIB RFC 4363 Q-BRIDGE-MIB RFC 4188 BRIDGE-MIB RFC 2013 UDP-MIB RFC 2012 TCP-MIB RFC 2011 IP-MIB RFC 2790 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB RFC 3636 MAU-MIB RMON-MIB RMON2-MIB HC-RMON-MIB LLDP-MIB LLDP-EXT-DOT1-MIB LLDP-EXT-DOT3-MIB ENTITY-MIB ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB ENTITY-STATE-MIB ARISTA-ACL-MIB ARISTA-QUEUE-MIB RFC 4273 BGP4-MIB RFC 4750 OSPF-MIB ARISTA-CONFIG-MAN-MIB ARISTA-REDUNDANCY-MIB RFC 2787 VRRPv2MIB MSDP-MIB PIM-MIB IGMP-MIB IPMROUTE-STD-MIB SNMP Authentication Failure trap ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB support for DOM (Digital Optical Monitoring) User configurable custom OIDs

* Not yet supported in EOS

Table Sizes*
STP Instances	64 (MST)/510 (RPVST+)
IGMP Groups	136K, with 8K unique groups
ACLs	8k
Egress ACLs	1k
ECMP	128-way, 1K groups

Specifications:

Environmental Characteristics
Operating Temperature	0 to 40C **
Storage Temperature	-40C to 70C
Relative Humidity	5 to 95%
Operating Altitude	0 to 10,000 ft, (0-3,000m)

Power Supply Specifcations
Power Supply	PWR-500AC	PWR-500DC	PWR-745AC	PWR-1100AC	PWR-1900AC	PWR-1900DC
Input Voltage	100-240AC	40-72V DC	100-240VAC	200-240AC	200-240AC	40-72V DC
Typical Input Current	6.3 - 2.3A	13.1 - 7.3A 11A at -48V	10 - 4A	6.5 - 5.5A	11.2 - 9.5A	28 - 50A 46A at -48V
Input Frequency	50/60Hz	DC	50/60Hz	50/60Hz	50/60Hz	DC
Input Connector	IEC 320-C13	AWG #16-#12	IEC 320-C13	IEC 320-C13	IEC 60320 C20	AWG #6-3
Efficiency (Typical)	93% Platinum	90%	93% Platinum	93% Platinum	93% Platinum	90%
Compatibility	7060CX-32S	7060CX-32S	7060CX-32S	7260QX-64	7260CX-64	7260CX-64 7260QX-64

Model Comparison
Switch Model	7060CX-32S	7260CX-64	7260QX-64
Ports	32 x QSFP100 2x SFP+	64x QSFP100 2x SFP+	64x QSFP+ 2x SFP+
Max 40GbE Ports	32	64	64
Max 10GbE Ports	130 (32 4x10G & 2xSFP+)	258 (64 4x10 & 2xSFP+)	2
Throughput	6.4 Tbps	12.8Tbps	5.12Tbps
Packets/Second	3.3 Bpps	9.52 Bpps	3.3 Bpps
Latency (SFP+ Ports)	450ns	550 to 1500ns	550ns
CPU	Multi-Core x86	Dual-Core i7 x86	Multi-Core x86
System Memory	4 Gigabytes	8 Gigabytes	4 Gigabytes
Flash Storage Memory	4 Gigabytes
Packet Buffer Memory	16MB (Dynamic Buffer Allocation)	64MB (Dynamic Buffer Allocation)	16MB (Dynamic Buffer Allocation)
100/1000 Mgmt Ports	1
RS-232 Serial Ports	1 (RJ-45)
USB Ports	1
Hot-swap Power Supplies	2 (1+1 redundant)
Hot-swappable Fans	4 (N+1 redundant)
Reversible Airflow Option	Yes
Typical/Max Power Draw*	220W / 410W	1672W / 2090W	315W / 800W

Supported Optics and Cables
Interface Type	QSFP+ ports
10GBASE-CR	0.5m-5m QSFP+ to 4x SFP+ (see note 1)
40GBASE-CR4	0.5m to 5m QSFP+ to QSFP+
40GBASE-AOC	3m to 100m
40GBASE-UNIV	150m (OM3) /150m (OM4) /500m (SM)
40GBASE-SRBD	100m (OM3) /150m (OM4)
40GBASE-SR4	100m (OM3) /150m (OM4)
40GBASE-XSR4	300m (OM3) /450m (OM4)
40GBASE-PLRL4	1km (1km 4x10G LR/LRL)
40GBASE-LRL4	1km
40GBASE-PLR4	10km (10km 4x10G LR/LRL)
40GBASE-LR4	10km
40GBASE-ER4	40km
100GbE	QSFP100 ports
100GBASE-CR4	Yes (various lengths)
100GBASE-AOC	3m to 30m
100GBASE-SR4	70m OM3 / 100m OM4 Parallel MMF
100GBASE-LRL4	1km SM Duplex
100GBASE-LR4	10km SM Duplex
100GBASE-CWDM4	2km SM duplex
25GBASE-CR	1m to 3m lengths

Documentation:

Download the Arista 7060X Series Datasheet (PDF).