>> You will encounter many stupid bugs. << We run on AIX and for the most part the bugs we have encountered also exist on other OS's though a couple have not. However, both HP and Solaris also have their fare share of platform specific bugs. Unfortunately, no matter where you run Oracle you are going to hits bugs. ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefano Cislaghi Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:26 PM To: fuadar@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ASM & HACMP Hello, why don't you consider Oracle clusterware? I've just tried Oracle on AIX and HACMP and really I do not like it. Also AIX is not the best OS for Oracle. You will encounter many stupid bugs. Stefano 2010/4/26 Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:fuadar@xxxxxxxxx>> List, Hope someone has had experience setting this up. We are loooking to moving from Filesystem to ASM. Now in a single server i would just run the localconfig add and be on with it in terms of cssd starting up. What would the process be in an HACMP cluster. I dont have Software on both nodes so when a node failsover the software unmounts and mounts to the inactive node with , What would the process be of starting up cssd daemon as part of this process. AIX 5.3 HACMP 5.3 ASM Software will be 11.1.0.7 DB Software will be 10.2.0.4 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu