I put together my first Arista VXLAN EVPN fabric in GNS3. It is based on the Multi-Tenant EVPN VXLAN IRB Sample Configuration article @ Arista. Although there are some discrepancies (see below), it is still a very valuable source of information.
The playbook in this video does the same as in the previous demo but The variables are defined through a web frontend. The frontend can be downloaded from here.
Let’s imagine a scenario where your campus network has its own AS and isconnected to the service provider(s) using eBGP. Business grows, your company hires more and more people, and suddenly your office space is not enough.
“It’s fine to have a backup link, but normally it’s not used and we’re paying a lot for it; could you send our file storage’s replication traffic through it?