Itential Automation & Orchestration for Arista Network Infrastructure
Many customers choose Arista Networks solutions to build high performance, fault-tolerant campus and data center networks that can quickly scale along with the growth of the overall business. When building networks at scale, it’s equally important to consider an automation and orchestration solution that can enable network teams to keep up with changes to their networks at scale.
Itential’s automation and orchestration products integrate with your Arista routers and switches directly through the EOS CLI, eAPI, or through CloudVision Portal, and utilize any existing Python scripts or Ansible Playbooks to help your teams use automation more effectively, orchestrate processes for more efficiency, and enable secure self-service infrastructure to end-users.
Itential Network Orchestration Use Cases for Arista Networks
Configuration Compliance
Audit, report, and remediate the configuration of all your Arista Networks devices to ensure that they are consistent in compliance with best practices and security standards. Compliance can be implemented directly to devices or utilized along with CloudVision Portal’s compliance features to deliver an end-to-end orchestrated compliance process.
VLAN Configuration Changes
Quickly automate VLAN configuration changes in your data center environment and include critical steps like data gathering from IPAMs and inventory, ticket management, and pre- and post-check processes with Itential’s visual workflows that orchestrate complex infrastructure changes.
VPN Configuration Updates
Add or remove VPN connectivity configurations from your Arista infrastructure in response to requests by building workflows that can integrate with security and ticketing systems and document changes automatically.
EOS Software Upgrades
Deploy EOS upgrades more efficiently in a single maintenance window by leveraging Itential to automate the change process directly, or with CloudVision Portal, and extend the automation to orchestrate time consuming steps like pre- and post-check processes, team notification, ticket management, and documentation in a low-code workflow.
ANTA (Arista Network Test Automation)
Arista’s testing framework creates an improved methodology for testing changes. Coupled with Itential, this framework can become powerful pre- and post-check tooling after a change.
AI in Networking
Networking AI environments require line-rate and heavily optimized networks all while making sure the network is stable. Use Itential to automate deployments, check CloudVision for congestion events, orchestrate remediation and notifications to ticketing systems, all in real time.
Extend the Capabilities of Your Arista Networks with Itential’s Orchestration Platform
Arista Networks provides high performance, scalable network infrastructure to support critical business applications and services.
Itential extends the capabilities of Arista’s solutions by integrating with both infrastructure and business systems so teams can build workflows that orchestrate an entire change process for common provision and management tasks, enabling more work in less time with fewer errors.
Orchestrated Deployment of AVDs (Arista Validated Designs)
Orchestrate processes that will deploy new networks based on Arista Validated Designs leveraging your preferred tools like Ansible, Python, or CloudVision and include critical time consuming tasks like change request management, notifications, and documentation.
Multi-Domain Compliance Reporting
Build intelligent Golden Configuration templates for Arista EOS devices and other network and security solutions for consistent multi-domain compliance reporting, with or without CloudVision.
Automated Network Operations
Automate the execution of commonly repeatable maintenance tasks and orchestrate them together with time consuming process tasks like opening and updating tickets, notifying teams, updating IPAMs and other systems.
End-to-End Service Lifecycle Management
Use orchestrated workflows to provision and track end-to-end services and related details across Arista devices, cloud, security and more in order to optimize resources, respond quickly to service changes, and keep up to date on the state of every service.
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- 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration Tools
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- Network Automation & Orchestration Evaluation Guide
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