github.com/sl1pm4t/consul@v1.4.5-0.20190325224627-74c31c540f9c/website/source/docs/enterprise/read-scale/index.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Consul Enterprise Enhanced Read Scalability" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-enterprise-read-scale" 5 description: |- 6 Consul Enterprise supports increased read scalability without impacting write latency. 7 --- 8 9 # Consul Enterprise Enhanced Read Scalability 10 11 In [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html), servers can be 12 explicitly marked as non-voters. Non-voters will receive the replication stream 13 but will not take part in quorum (required by the leader before log entries can 14 be committed). Adding explicit non-voters will [scale 15 reads](/docs/guides/autopilot.html#server-read-scaling) 16 without impacting write latency.