elasticsearch/docs/reference/high-availability.asciidoc
James Rodewig 659e0d3fd3
[DOCS] Overhaul snapshot and restore docs (#79081)
Makes several changes to consolidate snapshot and backup-related docs.

Highlights:

* Adds info about supported ESS snapshot repository types
* Adds docs for Kibana's Snapshot and Restore feature
* Combines tutorial pages related to taking and managing snapshots
* Consolidates explanations of the snapshot process
* Incorporates SLM into the snapshot tutorial
* Removes duplicate "back up a cluster" pages
2021-11-15 12:45:07 -05:00

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[[high-availability]]
= Set up a cluster for high availability
[partintro]
--
Your data is important to you. Keeping it safe and available is important
to {es}. Sometimes your cluster may experience hardware failure or a power
loss. To help you plan for this, {es} offers a number of features
to achieve high availability despite failures.
* With proper planning, a cluster can be
<<high-availability-cluster-design,designed for resilience>> to many of the
things that commonly go wrong, from the loss of a single node or network
connection right up to a zone-wide outage such as power loss.
* You can use <<xpack-ccr,{ccr}>> to replicate data to a remote _follower_
cluster which may be in a different data centre or even on a different
continent from the leader cluster. The follower cluster acts as a hot
standby, ready for you to fail over in the event of a disaster so severe that
the leader cluster fails. The follower cluster can also act as a geo-replica
to serve searches from nearby clients.
* The last line of defence against data loss is to take
<<snapshots-take-snapshot,regular snapshots>> of your cluster so that you can
restore a completely fresh copy of it elsewhere if needed.
--
include::high-availability/cluster-design.asciidoc[]
include::ccr/index.asciidoc[]