I would create on single farm. This gives you an easier way to manager your environment + it gives you more redundancy (you can have one or 2 servers in Tulsa in case something go wrong in salt lake and vice et versa) ____________________________________________ Marc-André Lapierre, MALICIS Informatique Inc. Consultant Senior / Senior Consultant Tel: (514) 516-0040 malapierre@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Message d'origine----- De : thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Landin, Mark Envoyé : 25 avril 2006 15:48 À : thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : [THIN] Design question .. Two farms, or one distributed farm? I've currently got a three-server farm, Windows 2003 Std, MPS 3.0, located in Tulsa. It's running MS Great Plains and MS Office and services about 60-80 users. Datastore is on an MS SQL 2000 server. I anticipate needing to put about 8-12 servers in Salt Lake City to host some parts of Office, and a homegrown scientific app, servicing 40-60 users. (With 10 servers, you can surmise that this homegrown app is somewhat intensive...) I am leaning towards making a separate farm for these servers. What are the pros and cons of setting this up as another farm vs. making it part of the existing farm? Are there times when it makes a whole ton of sense to do one over the other? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks! ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************ ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************