Hello All, few observations: - When I start the instances "devl-01" and "devl-02" on the same physical machine, Assumming that "devl-01" is started first and then "devl-02", the "devl-02" seems to be JOINING the cluster. - When i start third instance "devl-03" on a separate machine, its NOT joining the existing partition(cluster), instead its saying: 18:32:09,369 INFO [devl-partition-01] Merging partitions... Also its NOT showing the following 18:41:13,799 INFO [FarmMemberService] **** pullNewDeployments **** when the "devl-03" (separate m/c) is started, But I do get the same when "devl-02" (same m/c as devl-01) is started. Why its merging the partition for 3rd instance and joing for 2nd instance on the same machine? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993141#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...