# Replication between Data Centers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182 "2013-05-30T04:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182/1 "2013-05-30T04:32:16Z")

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Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data  
centers? Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182/2 "2013-05-30T05:31:58Z")

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Hey Mohit,

> Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data centers?  
> No. I don't think so. But, you will be probably able to do such a thing in the future.

> Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?  
> Have a look at [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/cluster/) and forced awareness section.

## HTH

David 😉  
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs

Le 30 mai 2013 à 06:32, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com) a écrit :

## Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data centers? Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182/3 "2013-06-09T06:29:56Z")

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Hi,

On Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:31:58 AM UTC-4, David Pilato wrote:

> Hey Mohit,
> 
> > Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data  
> > centers?  
> > No. I don't think so. But, you will be probably able to do such a thing in  
> > the future.

It's a little crazy, but we (Sematext) have a customer that has nodes an  
non-trivial ES cluster that spans multiple DCs.

## Otis

ELASTICSEARCH Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

> > Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?  
> > Have a look at  
> > [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/cluster/) and forced  
> > awareness section.
> 
> ## HTH
> 
> David 😉  
> Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
> 
> Le 30 mai 2013 à 06:32, Mohit Anchlia \<[mohita...@gmail.com](mailto:mohita...@gmail.com) \<javascript:\>\>  
> a écrit :
> 
> Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data  
> centers? Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?
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**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/replication-between-data-centers/12182/4 "2013-06-09T16:25:44Z")

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Do you mean that shards are placed in other data center? Is that the right  
way of doing it? In this case client in DC1 could initiate read in DC2?

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \<  
[otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:31:58 AM UTC-4, David Pilato wrote:
> 
> > Hey Mohit,
> > 
> > > Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data  
> > > centers?  
> > > No. I don't think so. But, you will be probably able to do such a thing  
> > > in the future.
> 
> It's a little crazy, but we (Sematext) have a customer that has nodes an  
> non-trivial ES cluster that spans multiple DCs.
> 
> ## Otis
> 
> ELASTICSEARCH Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> 
> > > Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?  
> > > Have a look at [http://www.elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch). **org/guide/reference/modules/**  
> > > cluster/ [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/cluster/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/cluster/) and  
> > > forced awareness section.
> > 
> > ## HTH
> > 
> > David 😉  
> > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs
> > 
> > Le 30 mai 2013 à 06:32, Mohit Anchlia [mohita...@gmail.com](mailto:mohita...@gmail.com) a écrit :
> > 
> > Does elasticsearch support asynchronuous replication between 2 data  
> > centers? Can elasticsearch be made RAC and DC aware?
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