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As the demands for data replication increase, the extra strain on a source cluster must be considered. Multiple targets create an immense resource strain on the source cluster, affecting client workloads as the source cluster pushes data to the target. SmartSync allows administrators to use the target cluster’s resources to pull the dataset, minimizing the system resource impacts on the source cluster, as shown in the following figure. In environments with a single-source dataset and numerous targets, this is useful because the source cluster’s resources can focus on client utilization.