Bear in mind also, that running RAC on local zone is NOT supported. Here is the useful book how to run Oracle in Solaris zone: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/db_in_containers.pdf E. Rudans Oracle DBA (OCA) http://erudans.info Quoting Brian MacLean : Solars Zones and Oracle......It's a whole new world for me. Any quick thoughts on this anyone? Pro's; Con's; GotYa's; Stability; Performance (CPU and I/O) hit; FYI's; Dynamic resizing issues; etc. etc. etc. TIA Links: ------ [1] mailto:bpmaclean.oracle@xxxxxxxxx