Understanding the Reasons for Deploying Multiple Farms
A SharePoint farm is fundamentally a collection of SharePoint role servers that provide for the base infrastructure required to house SharePoint sites and provide for other services, such as enterprise search. The farm level is the highest level of SharePoint architecture, providing a distinct operational boundary for a SharePoint environment. Each farm in an environment is a self-encompassing unit made up of one or more servers, such as web role servers, service application role servers, and SharePoint database servers.
In many cases, a single SharePoint farm is not enough to provide for all the needs of an organization. Some deploy multiple SharePoint farms to provide for test environments, ...
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