# Building VXLAN/EVPN Data Center Lab with netlab

DevFeed: [Building VXLAN/EVPN Data Center Lab with netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-vxlan-evpn-data-center-lab-with-netlab-11292.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/11/worth-reading-netlab-vxlan-evpn/>)

Published: 2025-11-20T06:56:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/evpn.md>), [VXLAN](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vxlan.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evpn.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [vxlan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vxlan.md>), [worth-reading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/worth-reading.md>)

## AI overview

The article recommends Dmitry Klepcha's document on using netlab to build data center fabric labs, progressing from a simple IP network to an EVPN/VXLAN network with symmetric IRB and MLAG. The lab topologies are available on GitHub.

## Source excerpt

Dmitry Klepcha published an excellent document describing how you can use netlab to build a series of data center fabric labs, starting from a simple IP network (without routing) and finishing with a complex EVPN/VXLAN network using symmetric IRB and MLAG toward hosts. But wait, there's more: all the lab topologies he used in his exercises are available on GitHub, which means that you could just clone the repo and start using them (I also "borrowed" some of his ideas as future netlab improvements). Read more ...