This is going to depend on how the services are defined, which is (at least to some degree) dependent on what *version* you're running? (Full version, please.) Are the services currently defined with specific preferred and available nodes? Or are all services set up to load balance across all nodes? -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Krishna Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:31 AM To: Oracle List Subject: evenly distribute services in RAC on node crash Hi Everybody, we have 4 node rac cluster. Node 4 crashed. All the services on node 4 moved to node1. how can I evenly distribute the services instead all services going to node1 ? for example: i have 10 services on node 4. All went to node 1. i want 3 on node1, 3 on node2, 4 node3 . how can i achieve this? Any help appreciated. Thanks Krishna -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l