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So your family is growing and getting bigger, the time has come to starting ranking your children in order from most to least favorite – if only there was an easy way to do this! Chances are if you are running a multi-site environment you probably have a simiar issue with Vault, as time goes by and our implementations get larger there is an ever stronger need to improve the replication between sites and simplify the end user workflows in managing replication.
With this in mind we made some important changes to replication, firstly to the way we choose replication order, Vault 2013 now allows administrators to choose which sites are the best performing in terms of connection latency, capacity or just simply reliability – by ranking sites in order of preference you can ensure replication is faster and more reliable.
In the past SQL would take sole responsibility for which avaiable sites where used to replicate data, but now by setting priority in the ADMS console Vault will select the highest ranked available site. This means most of the time it will be the first server on the list, but in the case of several high priority servers being offline it will work down the list until it runs out of ranked sites and then move to any “unranked” or undesirable sites to retrieve data from.
Too busy to set site affinity? No problem, Vault will work as it always has, and if you only set one preference that does not exclude Vault from connecting to other sites if it is unavailable.
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