Server Farm
Server farms are groups of real servers. You create a server farm so you can load balance traffic between the real servers that contain the identical content. All the real servers in a server farm are typically in the same physical location in a data center. First, you create all the real servers. After that, you create and name a server farm so you can add real servers to the server farm. You can also configure other server-farm parameters, such as the load balancing predictor, server weight, backup server, and health probe.
The load-balancing algorithm distributes client requests among the real servers in a server farm based on the configured policy and traffic classification, server availability and load, and other factors. If ...
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