Get started with 40GbE SDN with Microsoft Azure SONiC for under $1K

[Chris Anderson]

Want to get started with high-speed SDN but do not want to pay $10K or more for a switch? This guide will show you how load Azure SONiC on a sub $1k switch

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[i386]

Great post!

Do you know if it also works with other arista switches (eg. 7050q-16-r)? It's not listed on the wiki, but in a msdn blog post it was mentioned that it supports all "flashsips" asics from all big vendors, including broadcoms trident and tomahawk asics.

 

[MiniKnight]

I'll second that this is a great post. Maybe I'll give it a try over the holiday's. Thanks Chris.

 

[gigatexal]

By far and a way one of the coolest posts on STH in a while. Love the nerd- ness

 

[Jeggs101]

It took me some time just to read through. I don't have time to do this since the end of Q4 is going to be busy. I've bookmarked it. Chris I hope to see more from you!

 

[PigLover]

Very very nice. Thank you for this.

 

[AT S37=0]

Thanks for the thumbs up. I've been using the Arista/Sonic combination for a couple of weeks now. Once it's up and running, it keeps on running. No problems with losing BGP paths after hosts reboot, etc.

 

[AT S37=0]

Great post!

Do you know if it also works with other arista switches (eg. 7050q-16-r)? It's not listed on the wiki, but in a msdn blog post it was mentioned that it supports all "flashsips" asics from all big vendors, including broadcoms trident and tomahawk asics.

I haven't looked specifically at the 7050q-16-r version. The installation binary is the same for the 7050qx-32 and the 7050qx-32s, even though the LED/Fan drivers are slightly different. I know there is a database of switches within the Sonic filesystem that tells it what drivers to load. I think it will depend heavily on the drivers on Arista github here:

GitHub - aristanetworks/sonic

When you build Sonic, I believe it pulls the dependencies from there.

 

[AT S37=0]

There is a directory for the Arista 7050q-16, so it will probably work.

admin.8@arista:~$ docker exec -it pmon bash
root@arista:/# cd /usr/share/sonic/platform
root@arista:/usr/share/sonic/platform# ls
Arista-7050-Q16S64  fancontrol     plugins
Arista-7050-QX32    minigraph.xml  sensors.conf