Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Planning for Multiple Farms

Consider several key points when designing a SharePoint environment to include multiple farms:

• All SharePoint server roles, with the exception of the database role, can only be a member of a single farm. You cannot have a SharePoint server reside in more than one farm at a time.

• A single database server can contain databases from multiple farms, though it is generally recommended to limit the number of content databases on a single SQL instance to no more than 50.

• If deploying multiple farms on a single SQL server, be sure to use a common naming convention for each farm database so they can be logically organized on the SQL server. For example, naming all databases with the prefix SP_Farm1, SP_Farm2, and so on ...