# Response: The Usability of VXLAN

DevFeed: [Response: The Usability of VXLAN](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/response-the-usability-of-vxlan-11061.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/08/vxlan-usability/>)

Published: 2024-08-12T05:50:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [VXLAN](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vxlan.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [IP routing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ip-routing.md>)

Tags: [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [fabric](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fabric.md>), [ip-routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ip-routing.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [vxlan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vxlan.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that VXLAN can be useful even when an enterprise network is not reaching VLAN scalability limits. It identifies VLAN-only data center fabrics' reliance on STP and MLAG as significant drawbacks, and explains that VXLAN fabric transport enables IP routing and ECMP load balancing. It also notes that small VXLAN fabrics do not necessarily need EVPN.

## Source excerpt

Wes made an interesting comment to the Migrating a Data Center Fabric to VXLAN blog post: The benefit of VXLAN is mostly scalability, so if your enterprise network is not scaling... just don't. The migration path from VLANs is to just keep using VLANs. The (vendor-driven) networking industry has a huge blind spot about this. Paraphrasing the famous Dinesh Dutt's Autocon1 remark: I couldn't disagree with you more. Read more ...