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name: power-iaas-ha-dr
title: High availability and disaster recovery
description: IBM Power Virtual Server in [IBM data center]
last-updated: 2024-12-03
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# High availability and disaster recovery
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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:

* [High availability and disaster recovery options in IBM data center](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-ha-dr-on-cloud&format=markdown)
* [High availability and disaster recovery options in Client location](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-ha-dr-private-cloud&format=markdown)