Replication overview
Directory servers use replication to improve performance, availability, and reliability. Replication keeps the data in multiple directory servers synchronized.
Replication provides three main benefits:
- Redundancy of information - Replicas back up the content of their supplier servers.
- Faster searches - Search requests can be spread among several different servers, instead of a single server. Replication improves the response time for the request completion.
- Security and content filtering - Replicas can contain subsets of the data in a supplier server.