Why are Farms used in Sharepoint 2010?

Why are Farms used in Sharepoint 2010?

- Sharepoint 2010 provides logical grouping of the servers in which all the servers share common resources.

- The Farms in Sharepoint 2010 acts as a stand alone and provide the functionality for another farm as well.

- The Farm has its own configuration database that is centralized and through which other farms and interfaces are being managed.

- It has a PowerShell interfaces that is used to be managed through a central administration website and it uses the PowerShell’s infrastructure.

- Farm is a collection of servers and each server in the farm provides configuration services like IIS, Database connections, etc.

- The services that are provided in the Farm serve as a report to the resources allocation issues and it is scaled according to the requirements.