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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2024
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
To scale out recording capabilities, recorder nodes and service leaf or Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches are added to a production network and provisioned to a network-wide workload orchestration and workflow automation platform operating in a cloud computing environment or on the premises of an enterprise. Additionally, switches in the production network are configured to, at ingress, capture packets of a traffic flow between workload applications, mirror the captured packets, and add metadata to an encapsulation header of each captured packet. The encapsulation header includes a virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address of a recorder node cluster as the destination IP Address. The mirrored packets are routed to the VIP address. The service leaf or TOR switches symmetrically hash the mirrored packets and store them on a recorder node in the cluster. Through a centralized dashboard, a user can search, select, view, diagnose, analyze, or manage network components of the production network.