For what its worth, we're a NetApp shop on DNFS, and have never had any justification to use ASM... Unless there are political games between storage and database admins, why bother ? DNFS gives great performance, file management becomes a doddle (adding nodes is pretty much plug-any-play), and there's myriad of NetApp goodies should wish to take advantage of them... -- Connor McDonald =========================== blog: connormcdonald.wordpress.com web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room." - Jayne Howard -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l