SharePoint 2013 serving two geographic locations- how to build latency free farm

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  SharePoint really isn't designed to support a split geographic installation within a farm.  There really is no way to overcome the SQL latency issues that develop and its not a supported scenario.  There are two other options you can pursue.

  1. Build two separate farms, then place services like mysites or shared services like search where they are used most.  These services can then be shared with the remote farm.  It won't solve latency issues for all of your users, but will improve the overall experience
  2. There are several third party vendors that provide two-way real time replication between geographically separate farms.  For example, metalogix replicator which you can read about here:

  http://www.metalogix.com/Solutions/Use-Cases/SharePoint-to-SharePoint-Replication.aspx

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  • Proposed as answer by Paul Turner _ Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:22 PM

  Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:10 PM
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  Nice discussion, nice info, thought to promote it to a Wiki page at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16180.sharepoint-2013-best-practices-dealing-with-geographically-dispersed-locations.aspx and put a reference to it at the best practices page: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12438.sharepoint-2013-best-practices.aspx

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  Friday, March 1, 2013 10:38 AM
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  Hello All,

  Is it possible to have a Central farm (Located in Europe) and than have regional farms (US, ASIA). I can place then place services like mysites or shared services like Search, Metadata on the Central Farm and than use third party tool to replicate data?

  -RD

  Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:17 PM
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  You shouldn't as that is a large latency between your consumer farms. And Metalogix Replicator will place your farm in an unsupported state.

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  Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:28 PM