# PMM installation on same Percona Server Machine

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**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Created:** [March 29, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-installation-on-same-percona-server-machine/14962 "2022-03-29T10:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![khaledhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@khaledhu](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaledhu)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-installation-on-same-percona-server-machine/14962/1 "2022-03-29T10:45:53Z")

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I installed Percona 8 on a production server, I am merging from MySQL 5.7, I have around 2000 databases, and I installed PMM on the same machine, my question is about performance, is the best practice to install the PMM server on the same machine with Percona server or I should install it on separate machine and just install the client on the Percona server

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-installation-on-same-percona-server-machine/14962/2 "2022-03-29T14:52:04Z")

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Hi @khaledhu , welcome to the Percona forums!

It is generally best practices to install PMM Server on it’s own dedicated instance. Then you install the client `pmm2-client` on the MySQL instances.

Have a look at our quickstart docs:

> **[Install Percona Monitoring and Management](https://www.percona.com/software/pmm/quickstart)**
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> Quickstart: Install Percona Monitoring and Management