elasticsearch/docs/reference/high-availability.asciidoc
David Turner 1f28bd07a3
[DOCS] Add docs for designing resilient clusters (#47233)
Adds some guidance for designing clusters to be resilient to
failures, including example architectures.

Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
2020-06-05 11:48:44 -04:00

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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
<<backup-cluster,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::high-availability/backup-cluster.asciidoc[]
include::ccr/index.asciidoc[]