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page_title: Read Replicas (Enterprise)
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description: >-
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Learn how you can add non-voting servers to datacenters as read replicas to provide enhanced read scalability without impacting write latency.
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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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HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
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Refer to the [enterprise feature matrix](/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability) for additional information.
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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/config)
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documentation and the [-read-replica](/docs/agent/config/cli-flags#_read_replica)
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configuration flag.
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