# Chef Server HA is released!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-server-ha-is-released/8801>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-server-ha-is-released/8801 "2016-06-27T23:44:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-server-ha-is-released/8801/1 "2016-06-27T23:44:57Z")

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**We’re very pleased to announce that Chef Server HA is now available in full release.**

Chef Server HA is a completely new high availability (HA) architecture designed for mission-critical performance and reliability. It replaces the HA topologies that were previously available as part of the Chef Server package.

**Chef Server HA provides:**

- A high degree of fault tolerance
- Easy installation, operation, and maintenance
- Support for virtualized environments
- Synchronous search writes – data written to Chef servers is indexed much more quickly
- Dedicated, informative monitoring endpoints
- Native backup and restore tools that do not impact service availability
- Learn more about the new Chef Server HA topology at the Chef Docs site.

Chef Server HA is a new install of the Chef server. Users must migrate their Chef server data in order to take advantage of the new architecture.

Chef Subscribers can [download Chef Server HA and get started today](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-backend/)!

**Compatibility**  
At this time Chef Server HA is not compatible with:

- Chef Reporting
- Push Jobs Server
- Chef Analytics

More announcements about compatibility with these products will happen soon.

**Shout-out**  
The whole Chef HA team would like to thank our early access customers and beta participants for all their help. We couldn’t have done it without your assistance!