Replication Groups in a Multi-Data Center Deployment

This sample deployment shows the use of replication groups across multiple data centers. The deployment assumes two data centers, connected by a wide area network (WAN), with the following configuration:

• Each replication server and directory server within a single data center has the same group ID.

• There is a unique group ID for the entire data center (one group ID per data center).

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Replication Groups Over WAN

In this deployment, each directory server will attempt to connect to a replication server in its own data center, avoiding the latency associated with connection over a WAN. If all the replication servers in a data center fail, the directory server will connect to a remote replication server. This ensures that the replication service is maintained, albeit in a degraded manner (if the connection between data centers is slow). When one or more local replication servers is back online, the directory servers will automatically reconnect to a local replication server.