Arista Multi-Cloud Director

Arista Multi-Cloud Director (MCD) is a federated management platform that presents a single operational dashboard across multiple independent Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) and Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF) controller instances deployed across different data centre pods, sites, or cloud regions. In large-scale deployments where a single DMF or CCF controller instance is scoped to one pod or one data centre, and the organisation runs dozens of such pods across multiple sites, MCD provides the cross-site visibility and configuration consistency layer that individual controller instances cannot offer. Rather than requiring an operator to log into each controller separately to verify configuration compliance, push a global NTP or syslog policy, or check the state of a specific device across the estate, MCD presents all instances through one interface with real-time data pulled from each controller.

MCD deploys as a virtual machine appliance requiring only 4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM, and 400 GB of thinly provisioned storage, making it a lightweight addition to an existing data centre virtualisation estate. Supported hypervisors include VMware ESXi 6.5 or higher, KVM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 or CentOS 7.6, and Nutanix AHV 5.18.1.2. The platform scales to 50 DMF instances, 50 CCF instances, and 25 Analytics Node (AN) clusters, with a combined ceiling of 65 total managed instances, sufficient for large enterprise and service provider deployments that operate dozens of monitoring fabric pods across geographically distributed sites. Template-based configuration workflows allow global policies (AAA authentication, NTP servers, syslog destinations, sFlow collectors) to be defined once in MCD and deployed consistently to all instances, with compliance checks that identify any instance deviating from the defined global standard.