Hi Koen, See below... On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:09:45 +0100, Koen Van Langenhove <Koen.Van_Langenhove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Alex, > looks like you're a little pessimistic about the ASM instance. Would > you care telling us why ? It's just another instance, why would be it be > less reliable than the 'real' instances ? Exactly. It's probably not less reliable but I don't see why it would be MORE reliable and that what I would demand. My perception is that clusterware is normally more reliable than Oracle database. > BTW it's certainly not the definitive test, but I just killed the ASM > instance of the second node, and CRS managed to restart ASM and the >other instances nicely. The key word is RESTARTED. Imagine that you need to install a new patchset for your ASM instance or one-off patch. All you DBs will have to be down during that time. we can't afford it. -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l