Question: why do i need vxlan?
Answer: VXLAN technology allows you to segment your networks (as VLANs do), but it provides benefits that VLANs cannot. Here are the most important benefits of using VXLANs: You can theoretically create as many as 16 million VXLANs in an administrative domain (as opposed to 4094 VLANs on a Juniper Networks device).