Help design client/server system

Greetings,

        We are new to the client server world. We are currently migrating from an IMS database to Oracle 7. Our platform will be HP 9000's; 2 G30's and 3 G20's. The G20's are to be application servers and the G30's are to be database servers. My question is: how would you set this up? Should we set up one database that is distributed across both db servers? Should we run the database on one machine and have the other mirror it? Should we be restricting the Oracle applications to only run on the 3 app servers? Should we just distribute all applications and databases across all 5 servers? What are the net's thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance!

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