Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager.
On our Site we are running several smaller PI Server and would like to have one or a few central Relay server instead of a Relay per DataArchive. However, this is not possible yet as Relay Service can not be instanciated and only provide a 1 by 1 connection to a DataArchive/AF Server pair. Our workaround is to install the Relay service locally on each Dataarchive, but we would like to keep this centralized for Maintenance reasons.