.. _Configuring High Availability: Configuring High Availability ----------------------------- High Availability keeps virtual machines, containers, and iSCSI targets operational even if the hardware node they are hosted on fails. Three modes are available: - DRS (default). In this mode, virtual machines and containers which were running on a failed node are relocated to healthy nodes based on available RAM and license capacity. This mode can be used for nodes on which the ``pdrs`` service is running. - Round-robin (default fallback). In this mode, virtual machines, containers, and iSCSI targets from a failed node are relocated to healthy nodes in the round-robin manner. - Spare. In this mode, virtual machines and containers from a failed node are relocated to a spare node---an empty node (that has no virtual machines, containers, iSCSI targets, and S3 clusters stored on it) with enough resources and a license to host all virtual environments from any given node in the cluster. Such a node is required for high availability to work in this mode. For information on how to configure High Availability and switch between its modes, consult `Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7 User's Guide `__.