| S No | VLAN | VXLAN | Remarks |
| 1 | Scalable upto 4094 Vlans | Scalable upto 16 million VXLAN segments | Vlans use 12-bit Vlan ID which limit to 4094 Vlans.VXLAN uses 24-bit ID which scales it upto 16 Million VXLAN segments |
| 2 | Vlan uses STP which blocks redundant paths and hence allows using only half of available paths. | VXLAN uses underlying Layer 3 routing protocol to use all the available parts with technologies like ECMP (Equal cost multipath Routing) etc. | |
| 3 | Less flexible for multitenant environment | Flexible and suitable for multitenant environment. | |
| 4 | Uses Vlan tag on Layer 2 frame for encapsulation to extend Vlan across switches. | Uses MAC-in-UDP encapsulation to extend Layer2 segments across locations. |
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
VxLan vs Vlan
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