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High availability and disaster recovery

High availability and disaster recovery


IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center

IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location


Both High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are essential for business continuity. HA addresses local planned and unplanned outages for hardware or software. Disaster recovery addresses the catastrophic events during which the IBM Cloud region might become unavailable.

Review the following topics to understand the HA and DR for IBM data center and Client location offerings of IBM Power Virtual Server: