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Multi-Cloud Director™

Arista Networks® Multi-Cloud Director™ (MCD) offers multi-controller federated management for Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric™ (DMF) and Converged Cloud Fabric™ (CCF) deployments. MCD provides a one-dashboard experience for DMF and CCF in multi-pod, multi-site environments.

Multi-Cloud Director

Arista Networks® Multi-Cloud Director™(MCD) offers multi-controller federated management for Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric™ (DMF) and Converged Cloud Fabric™ (CCF) deployments. MCD provides a one-dashboard experience for DMF and CCF in multi-pod, multi-site environments. Multi-Cloud Director (MCD) not only consolidates repetitive administration tasks to simplify the management of multiple networks, but also provides global visibility across your data centers. Organizations realize tremendous operational savings compared to the cost of operating the massive complexity of a box-by-box network. Multi-Cloud Director provides an intuitive dashboard that displays real-time data from DMF and CCF controllers. Operations teams can select a specific controller to see a detailed view of a particular DMF or CCF deployment.

Multi-Cloud Director overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set Multi-Cloud Director apart.

Multi-Cloud Director Benefits

Global Configurations

MCD provides global configurations that are commonly and consistently applied across all DMF and CCF deployments, such as sFlow, AAA, NTP, and syslog etc. Template-based workflow is provided so that configurations can be easily applied across a subset of DMF and CCF deployments. MCD also performs compliance checks on these configurations to ensure consistency across all the deployments.

Global Visibility

IT organizations can quickly and intuitively search the MCD database to visualize various parameters of DMF and CCF deployments. For example, network admin can easily identify any endpoint across global deployment of dozens of controller domains and hundreds of switches. IT-wide policy compliance can be rapidly audited across switch and appliance hardware, software and firmware versions, switch ASICs etc. and exported for reporting purposes.

Multi-Cloud Director - Global Dashboard Capabilities

Integration

MCD is integrated with:
  • DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF)
  • Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF)
  • Analytics Node (AN)

Visibility

Enables Global visibility to check software revisions, IP addresses, MAC addresses, major alerts, fabric-specific information, endpoint addresses, and myriad other data objects.

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Technical Specifications

Hardware and software metrics extracted directly from the official Arista datasheet.

  • Max CCF instances
    50
  • Max DMF instances
    50
  • Max AN Clusters
    25
  • Max Total (DMF, CCF & AN)
    65

  • Environment
    MCD VM
  • Hypervisor
    VMware ESXi - 6.5 or higher
    KVM - RedHat 7.5, CentOS 7.6
    Nutanix AHV - 5.18.1.2
  • vCPU
    4
  • vMemory
    6GB
  • vHDD
    400GB (thin provisioned)
  • vNIC
    1

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