distance between Application server and database server

[former_member209962]

Hi All,

We have question regarding database server and application in a distributed environment where application is running on separate server and database server running on separate server.

Can we run database server on separate location and application server on separate location (with in distance for 5 KM)

Thanks

Tabrayz

[michael_eaton3]

Technically, yes you can. However if performace is important then the network speed between the sites will be critical.

In reality you don't want to be doing this for a production system.

[dvankempen · Accepted solution]

As Michael comments, technically possible, but unconventional architecture. Network connection needs to be extremely fast. Typically, you would want to keep your database and application server as close as possible to keep latency to a minimum

E.g. Microsoft Azure offers proximity placement groups so that even virtualised environments are physically close.

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/sap-proximity-placement-scenar...