I had an interesting “how do you build a small fabric without throwing every technology in the mix” discussion with Nicola Modena and mentioned that I don’t see a reason to use EVPN in fabrics with just a few switches. He disagreed and gave me a few good scenarios where EVPN might be handy. Before discussing them let’s establish a baseline.
The SetupAssume you’re building two small data center fabrics (small because you have only a few hundred VMs and two because redundancy and IT auditors).