Kumar, I did some _tests_ with such a setup, it works fine but is very confusing for everyone. One point to mention: an instance can only access _one_ ASM-instance at a time. (the 'first' used DG defines the ASM-instance) I never ever tried to run this setup in a prod env. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:05, Kumar Madduri <ksmadduri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hence my question on if there were any clients that did setup this way for > any reason (good or bad). -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l