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Chapter 41
Configuring Multi-site (WAN) Deployments
SQLFire supports propagating create, read, update, and delete operations across multiple distributed systems. You can
use this feature to keep multiple clusters in synch with each other over a wide area network.
Note: DDL operations and procedure execution are not propagated across WAN boundaries. See Multi-site
Deployment on page 213 for more information.
About Gateways
A multi-site installation consists of two or more distributed systems. Each site is its own distributed system and
has one or more logical connections to other sites, called gateways.
Gateway Conguration Overview on page 228
How Gateway Sender Startup Policy Affects Startup Behavior on page 229
Configuration Diagrams
In a simple multi-site deployment, two SQLFire clusters replicate DML operations to each other. If one of the
SQLFire clusters fails or is taken ofine for maintenance, clients in that geographical region can use the available
SQLFire cluster for continued access.
Figure 4: Basic WAN replication configuration
More complex multi-site congurations can add additional SQLFire clusters to the basic conguration shown
above. As additional clusters are added, each individual cluster in the deployment requires an additional gateway
sender to ensure that each site replicates to all other sites across the WAN. (See Supported and Unsupported
Topologies on page 215)
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