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Enable High Availability ​

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To learn about the high availability modes, see High Availability.

Spreads the Foundry and its database and object storage over the Nest Instances, so it keeps working when one of them is down.

Prerequisites ​

  • At least three Nest Instances with status Ready, see Create Nest Instance
  • For Multi-zone: the Nest Instances are in at least two Zones
  • The Nest is healthy and no update, join, reset or rebalance is running

Enable High Availability ​

  1. Navigate to Admin settings → Foundry → Actions → Enable high availability
  2. Select the High availability mode:
ModeDescription
Multi-instanceSurvives the loss of one Nest Instance
Multi-zoneSurvives the loss of a Zone
  1. Click Enable

The Foundry shows Enabling while the operation runs, then the mode. The mode cannot be changed afterwards.

If Foundry refuses, see Refused Actions.