Warm standby geographical support: Where a secondary node in a cluster acts as backup of an identical primary system after primary node failure. Data gets mirrored to a secondary system using scheduled disk-based replication or a shared disk. This process uses cluster manager automation via the Blue Planet georedundancy app, but users must complete a restore manually. This generally provides a recovery time of a few minutes and requires you to set up a mirrored version of your system. For details, see Managing warm standby disaster recovery.

Cold standby geographical support: Where a secondary node in a cluster acts as backup of an identical primary system after manual intervention. You must manually back up the primary system onto a storage system and complete a restore to a secondary system if and when required. This generally provides a recovery time of a few hours and requires you to have a space to store your backup files versus mirroring an entire system. This support is limited to Blue Planet Orchestration. For details, see Managing cold standby disaster recovery.