[THIN] Re: Design question .. Two farms, or one distributed farm?

Hmm. OK we don't meet any of those requirements. Thanks! 

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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:48 PM
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: Design question .. Two farms, or one 
> distributed farm?
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> 
> Poor connectivity between sites, totally separate functional 
> business units or companies, when there are totally separate 
> IT staff maintaining the two sites.....
> 
> Steve Greenberg
> Thin Client Computing
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> Scottsdale, AZ 85262
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Landin, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:19 PM
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: Design question .. Two farms, or one 
> distributed farm?
> 
> OK.
> 
> Under what circumstances would you recommend a separate farm?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Joe Shonk
> Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 2:51 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Design question .. Two farms, or one 
> distributed farm?
>  
> 2 farms generally means 2 times the administration.  MPS 3.0 
> and PS 4.0 works fine across WANS.  Just split the two sites 
> into two zones and use Zone Preference Failover for the clients.
> 
> Joe
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:48 PM
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> Subject: [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!
> 
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