Multi-Master Replication

Figure 8.3. Multi-Master Replication (Four Masters)

Multi-master configurations have the following advantages:

Automatic write failover when one supplier is inaccessible.

Updates are made on a local supplier in a geographically distributed environment.

NOTE

The speed that replication proceeds depends on the speed of the network. Plan changes and directory configuration accordingly, and realize that changes to one directory may not be quickly replicated to other directories over slow links, such as wide-area networks, in geographically-distributed environments.

For the procedure to set up multi-master replication, see Section 5, “Configuring Multi-Master

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