High availability refers to the continuous availability of resources without any service interruption if a failure occurs.
To prevent service disruptions when an Identity Resolution server fails, you can set up high availability. To set up high availability, use server groups in an active-passive configuration. Server groups provide redundancy by allowing several Identity Resolution servers to run concurrently on different nodes.
When you use server groups to set up high availability, one of the servers in the group becomes the primary server. The other servers on the other nodes assume the role of secondary servers. If the primary server goes down, one of the secondary servers becomes the primary server. The primary server that fails becomes a secondary server after it recovers.
You can set up high availability for the Search server through third-party load balancers in an active-active configuration. You cannot set up high availability for the Console server through server groups or load balancers.