Hi, It was usual on the old days of 11.0, when network was 100Mbits to keep the CM/Reports and DB on the same node. Nowadays as gigabit ethernet is common I have seen many installations with only the DB on one node, and everything else on the other, so you only have to apply patches to one node. This depends on processor power too, CM/reports are CPU intensive, so if you dont have much cpu power or memory on the second node you may want to keep the CM/Reports on the database node to distribute the load. Regards, Luis --- On Fri, 5/30/08, Pravin RC <pravinrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Pravin RC <pravinrc@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: 2 node Architecture To: ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 1:50 AM the only reason i can see is the network trafic, otherwise u can run all the services on different nodes. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM, k srinivas <k.sridba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi DBAs, In Multinode setup with 2 nodes,usually we go for DB/CM/Report server one one node and Forms/Web server on second node Whts the logic behind DB/CM/Report sever on same node. Thanks in advance. -- Affectionately Yours Pravin R C