Viewing a Sample Small SharePoint Farm
For those organizations with a greater number of users or whose users are more active and require a separate server, the next step up in SharePoint design is a small farm model, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Figure 2.2. Viewing a sample small SharePoint farm.
In this type of deployment, two servers would be set up. The first would hold all the databases and would essentially be a dedicated SQL server box for SharePoint. The second server would run the SharePoint roles. By separating the database role from the SharePoint roles, significant performance increases can be obtained.
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