# About high availability

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/about-high-availability/12031>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [October 14, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-high-availability/12031 "2018-10-14T18:42:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-high-availability/12031/1 "2018-10-14T18:42:28Z")

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I am currently running Rancher server on a single VPS. I want to be able to manage the cluster via Rancher even if the VPS running Rancher server goes down. I checked the HA doc on [https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/ha/](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/ha/) but it looks a bit confusing.

My question is: Would it work if I

1. get etc and controlplane running on multiple nodes
2. install Rancher server on another VPS (let’s call this one Rancher server 2) and import the cluster I created on the first rancher