Because the VXLAN gateway node can become a single point of failure, it is important to dual-home devices or clusters to a pair of gateways. While there may be multiple mechanisms to accomplish this, using MLAG (Multi-switch Link Aggregation Group) is the best solution due to its simplicity and because it imposes no additional constraints on the tenant devices except that they support LAG (Link Aggregation Group).
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