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layout: docs
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page_title: Consul Enterprise Enhanced Read Scalability
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description: >-
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Consul Enterprise supports increased read scalability without impacting write
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latency by introducing read replicas.
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# Enhanced Read Scalability with Read Replicas
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<EnterpriseAlert>
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This feature requires{' '}
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<a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/">Consul Enterprise</a>{' '}
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with the Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module.
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</EnterpriseAlert>
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Consul Enterprise provides the ability to scale clustered Consul servers
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to include voting servers and read replicas. Read replicas still receive data from the cluster replication,
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however, they do not take part in quorum election operations. Expanding your Consul cluster in this way can scale
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reads without impacting write latency.
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For more details, review the [Consul server configuration](/docs/agent/options)
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documentation and the [-read-replica](/docs/agent/options#_read_replica)
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configuration flag.
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