Location

In Fivetran HVR, a Location is an endpoint in a replication process. It can be a file, database, data warehouse, or any other system supported by HVR. Locations can be local (i.e. residing on the same machine as the HVR Hub System) or remote (residing on a remote machine, other than the HVR Hub system).

Every Location that participates in the replication process is a member of a source or target Location Group. It is a logical group that includes all the source or all the target endpoints, between which the data is replicated. Unless a Location is added to a source or target Location Group (i.e., defined as a source or a target), it cannot participate in the replication process.`

Location Groups and all the actions that HVR can perform (comparison, scheduling, error handling, performance tuning, etc.) together make a Channel – a logical unit which connects the source and target Locations.

Any Location Group can contain multiple Locations. Within a specific Channel, a Location can only be added to one Location Group (i.e., in a single Channel, it can only be either a source or a target).

Location's Place within the Channel Structure

The following image shows a Channel scheme. It includes:

• Source Location Group. It can contain files, directories, data warehouses, or any of the locations for which HVR supports Capture. To see the list of all Locations that HVR supports as source, navigate to your preferred version of HVR in Supported Platforms.
• Actions, which take place in the HVR Hub.
• Target Location Group. It can contain files, directories, data warehouses, or any of the locations for which HVR supports Integrate. To see the list of all Locations that HVR supports as target, navigate to your preferred version of HVR in Supported Platforms (HVR supports all locations as target besides SAP NetWeaver).