Arista Networks Platform Room for Improvement

MarekSzafrański - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Eurofins

The product fails to offer functions related to cloud orchestration, making it in areas where improvements are required.

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Sumanth Myneni - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at PepsiCo

The solution should look at offering Power over Ethernet (PoE) for multiple different models in the future, as it is one area where the product currently lacks.

The stability of the product is an area where certain improvements are required.

The product is scalable. My company does face issues in terms of interoperability when it comes to the product, making it an area that needs to be fixed.

There is a scope for improvement in the integration capabilities offered by the product, especially considering its ability to integrate with our company's existing infrastructure.

In Arista Networks Platform, there are some issues when it comes to interoperability where it needs to improve.

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Ismail Kurnaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Consultant at Netsys Bilişm

Something that you will often hear about Arista products is that the price is a bit too high and, like with Cisco, we sometimes have problems with our customers because of its pricing. However, price-for-price I would say that Arista may still be better than Cisco, and I would even go so far as to say that Arista products are the number one solution in the world for data center networks. It is commonly accepted that Cisco switches are the perfect product for data center environments, but I believe that Arista switches are even superior.

Almost all of our customers that use Arista products are happy to use them, with the only complaint being the price. Thus, if the price of Arista's products were the same as Cisco's product, it's possible that customers would actually prefer Cisco over Arista. 

When it comes to working with and setting up the Arista Networks Platform, things are not too difficult because the configuration is so similar to Cisco products and almost all of our network engineers have experience with Cisco. However, Arista lacks a comprehensive set of loopback commands as compared to Cisco. With Cisco devices, there are several loopback commands such as "ip bgp" which can be used to easily diagnose problems, but with Arista many of these commands are absent, making it so that troubleshooting and getting certain problems under control is more difficult in comparison with Cisco. It would be very helpful if Arista brought more loopback features to the CLI.

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AS
Technical Presales Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

I do prefer the Cisco interface.

Cisco is not too user-friendly, however, in terms of the comments to deploy the configurations, to change or update configurations, Cisco is easy compared to Arista.

We did at one point have a software bug. I remember that sometimes they used to make the physical connection and then everything was all right, however, the port, the physical port didn't come up. We needed to set the port down and then up again to work. 

We also had a problem when using the internet service providers that connected to Arista. When the internet was down and came up again, the suite couldn't recognize and keep the status as unavailable.

The solution is a bit pricey.

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Sumanth Myneni - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at PepsiCo

Arista Networks Platform should focus on improving the compatibility or integration with Cisco solutions.

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AnkurKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at HCL Technologies

They need to enhance their code and their EOS. They need to improve some security features, and there are quite a number of bugs in their system. So, they need to work on that piece.

In the next release, we need to have a modular feature. Instead of providing an integrated solution, they should go for something modular. They need to come up with modular highly scalable models. Even at the chassis layer, I want to see some improvement. 

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SH
Senior Network Engineer II at Mercury General Corporation

Its price can be better. 

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MM
Mr at MMP Computer Services

In my view, Arista could enhance the Wide Area Network balancer and failover. While the failover is swift, less than five seconds, it tends to be overly sensitive, triggering unnecessary alarms and emails. A smoother transition between ISPs during failover would improve the user experience by reducing unnecessary notifications and interruptions.

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WB
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The documentation for this solution needs to be improved. In the documentation, it is not easy to find the exact solution which describes the configuration step by step. It means that we've had to ask our supplier how to use certain features, and which commands to use. We can find a simple description on the website, as well as a list of the features, but a more complete description is not available. It is not clear exactly how to configure and use each of the features. For other vendors, we can find the exact configuration, with examples, that we need to deploy for any new features.

The documentation did not explain that we could not vary the speed between ports that are in the same block. For example, we cannot have 1G and 10G on the neighboring ports. All four ports have to be 1G or 10G, which was very annoying for us when we realized that we needed to change the configuration and the cabling that we had already prepared.

In the next release of this solution, we would like the option to use two switches as one virtual switch.

The CVP management platform needs to be improved.

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it_user1033941 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Some new features are needed.

Arista is technology-driven by themselves. At times they are limited by standards that are not formally closed. 

I would like to see more integration with one of the providers from each intent-based network for compliance documentation and IT security purposes. For future development of the product, being able to manage the security or relevant paths with intent-based networking is important. The intent-based network is a management that is on our security level.

The intent-based networking management, together with the provider of these solutions that are already free, would be beneficial.

I don't worry that there is a time gap between finalizing as triple E standards before integrating with the future release.

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Bona Chhith - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Network Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

Arista has done a pretty good job, but there's room for improvement. They should have a more stable code. Their code is a lot better than Juniper, but there are a lot of bugs, issues that arise and memory leaks.

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Tareq Elqadah - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Manager at Cyber Knight Technologies FZ LLC

The solution’s pricing could be better.

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AM
CEO at Mart Networks Group

An area for improvement we see in Arista Networks Platform is its integration, e.g. it needs to have more integration with its new products. It should have good integration with multiple wireless, security, and other products they recently acquired. Everybody needs just one dashboard, e.g. we are looking at where we can monitor all the other products which Arista Networks Platform has recently acquired.

Incorporating more security and cloud in terms of the journey to digital transformation is also another area for improvement in Arista Networks Platform, because more and more companies would like to have the incorporation of both cloud and security into their firmware.

An additional feature we'd like to see in the next release of Arista Networks Platform has everything to do with permissions. If you're looking at interfacing with other vendors, they need to have open protocols like API, so that it becomes easier for threat backing integration.

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Benny Sumitro - PeerSpot reviewer
GM Technical Management at PT. DATACOMM DIANGRAHA

The overall price of the Arista Networks Platform is expensive. It should be reduced.

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DE
System Engineer at VTI

I want the solution to include a unified controller. 

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FF
Vice President, Network Engineering at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

There is a lot of room for improvement within the solution. Any product, however, can improve. No product is perfect.

The solution needs to accommodate new features.

I have personally made some recommendations in the past and hope to see this implemented in their product line.

I think there is a need for improvement in the area of their VXLAN/EVPN capability but their current solution is great regardless but may be not very scalable for a global deployment.

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Abdallah Samir - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The stability of this solution needs to be improved as part of the next upgrade.

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MB
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is quite expensive. One of the negative aspects of it is the pricing. 

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NW
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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TA
Cyber Security Consultant and Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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.

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