Imagine you have a typical 2-tier data center network (because 3-tier is so last millennium): layer-2 top-of-rack switches redundantly connected to a pair of core switches running MLAG (to get around spanning tree limitations) and IP forwarding between VLANs.
Next thing you know, a rep from your favorite vendor comes along and says: “did you know you could connect all ToR switches into a virtual fabric and manage them as a single entity?” Is that a good idea?
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