eEOS in EVE-NG

I’ve recently started getting more involved with Arista deployments, and EVE-NG is my go to for lab simulation of customer environment. EVE supports Arista vEOS out of the box, which is a full KVM QEMU image of Arista’s EOS switch operating system. A co-worker has a requirement to lab up a very large Arista deployment, 25-30 switches worth. He gave me a screenshot of a 128 core 256G ram server, that was almost 100% full on CPU and had consumed half the memory of the system. ...

February 6, 2023 · 7 min · 1294 words · Me