# HA Installation advantage **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\ **Created:** [June 27, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ha-installation-advantage/10927 "2018-06-27T19:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ha-installation-advantage/10927/1 "2018-06-27T19:29:38Z")
Hello, I wanted to know if what are the advantage of a HA installation. If we’re a small team it does’t matter if Rancher is down for a couple of minutes while updating data. Is it still needed to have a HA installation for production ? If my k8s clusters still working, only rancher will not be accessible or there’s other consideration that I don’t understand ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ha-installation-advantage/10927/2 "2018-06-27T20:09:19Z")
I found my answer there : [Need for Rancher HA / Impact if down?](http://forums.suse.com/t/need-for-rancher-ha-impact-if-down/10574/4) ---
**Author:** ![etlweather](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/etlweather/32/419_2.png) [@etlweather](https://forums.suse.com/u/etlweather)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ha-installation-advantage/10927/3 "2018-06-27T20:14:51Z")
Glad I could help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/ha-installation-advantage/10927/4 "2018-06-27T20:26:17Z")
Yes you did all the work of testing it for me. Your solution of using single node installation is perfect for my use case 😄