# Arista Veos

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/arista-veos
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/arista-veos.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/arista-veos/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://arista.com
- **Slug:** arista-veos
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools, it-management-software

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Runs the exact same binary code as Arista's physical switches, ensuring 100% feature consistency between virtual and physical environments.
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Arista vEOS (Virtual Extensible Operating System) is a software-only instance of Arista's network operating system. It allows users to run the same EOS software found on physical switches within a virtual machine environment for testing, development, and network simulation. vEOS is designed to provide the exact same CLI, APIs, and features as hardware-based switches, excluding hardware-dependent ASIC features.
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Virtual Machine Images (.ovf
  - .vmdk
  - .qcow2)
  - vEOS-lab
  - CloudEOS (vEOS Router)
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Freemium (Free for lab use, Subscription for production vEOS Router/CloudEOS)
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Network Engineers, DevOps Professionals, Cloud Architects, Training/Certification candidates
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Cisco vIOS / ASAv
  - Juniper vMX / vQFX
  - VyOS
  - Nokia SROS (VSR)
Source: Brand's website (https://arista.com) · 2026-10-04

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