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Standalone replicas and replication servers

This information applies to advanced deployments.

  • Standalone replication servers have no application data backends. They store only changes to directory data. They’re dedicated to transmitting replication messages and maintaining a replication change log.

  • Standalone directory servers store replicated copies of application data. These replicas send updates to and receive updates from replication servers. They connect to one replication server at a time and don’t maintain a replication change log.

Configure standalone servers at setup time. Learn more in Install standalone servers (advanced).

With DS 6.5 and earlier, you could transform an existing server to a standalone server. The release of DS 7.0 simplified the process of setting up standalone servers, making transforming an existing server unnecessary. Rather than convert an existing server to a standalone server, replace it with a new standalone server.