deploy tiered storage space with 16.2 version with max-instances-per-machine set to 1 and pu.autogenerated-instance-sla true doesn't respect max-instances-per-machine resulting in primary & backup of the same partition on the same host. log from deploying on single machine 1,1 with above requirments: 2022-10-24 11:56:52,363 REST INFO [com.gigaspaces.manager.rest.service.requests.DeployRequest] - Submitting request [Deploy processing unit space-10-SNAPSHOT] request id [1f6db337-cb2d-4b20-a19e-d65859ace2f5] 2022-10-24 11:56:52,584 REST INFO [org.openspaces.pu.container.servicegrid.deploy.Deploy] - Downloading processing unit from [http://localhost:8090/v2/resources/space-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar] to [/home/oferyarom/162/gigaspaces-xap-enterprise-16.2.0/work/space-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar] 2022-10-24 11:56:53,444 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm] - Deploying space-10-SNAPSHOT {type=stateful, instances=1, backups=1, max-instances-per-machine=1}, request id [1f6db337-cb2d-4b20-a19e-d65859ace2f5] 2022-10-24 11:56:53,523 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.provision] - Attempting to allocate processing unit instance [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1 [1]] on [GSC pid[8108] host[E7450-ESTERA/127.0.1.1] service-id[916efd4d-4a83-4570-a841-e61ef099ad3f]] 2022-10-24 11:56:53,541 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.provision] - Attempting to allocate processing unit instance [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1_1 [1]] on [GSC pid[8132] host[E7450-ESTERA/127.0.1.1] service-id[86371a87-5608-4e28-b3ba-acce999c6830]] 2022-10-24 11:57:07,972 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.provision] - Allocated processing unit instance [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1_1 [1]] on [GSC pid[8132] host[E7450-ESTERA/127.0.1.1] service-id[86371a87-5608-4e28-b3ba-acce999c6830]] 2022-10-24 11:57:08,246 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.services] - Managing Service: [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1_1 [1]] at host: [127.0.1.1] 2022-10-24 11:57:09,579 REST INFO [org.openspaces.admin.internal.driver.ServiceGridAdminDriver] - setting ip 127.0.1.1 for instance 1_1 2022-10-24 11:57:12,867 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.provision] - Allocated processing unit instance [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1 [1]] on [GSC pid[8108] host[E7450-ESTERA/127.0.1.1] service-id[916efd4d-4a83-4570-a841-e61ef099ad3f]] 2022-10-24 11:57:12,945 GSM INFO [com.gigaspaces.grid.gsm.services] - Managing Service: [space-10-SNAPSHOT.1 [1]] at host: [127.0.1.1] 2022-10-24 11:57:12,987 REST INFO [org.openspaces.admin.internal.driver.ServiceGridAdminDriver] - setting ip 127.0.1.1 for instance 1_0 2022-10-24 11:57:13,084 REST INFO [org.openspaces.admin.internal.driver.ServiceGridAdminDriver] - All of test1 space instances successfully deployed, registered and updated in sla