A Server Farm is a collection of computer servers used to accomplish server needs beyond the capability of one machine. Server farms often have backup (redundant) servers, which can take over the function of primary servers in the event of a primary server failure.
Aimetis Symphony takes advantage of server farms by distributing the workload of camera processing across several servers. Symphony also supports server farm redundancy by failing over camera processing from a 'down' server to a 'redundant' server.
With Symphony all live and redundant servers are homogeneous in that they all run the same software services and can potentially run the processing of any camera.
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