*Each ASM disk group member must be a SLVM raw logical volume *SLVM provides active/standby multi-pathing support for RAC and single instance ("pvlinks") *Leverage cluster-wide device name feature of SLVM that same info from HP says consider using the full oracle stack (ie. no SGe for RAC) when using ASM. any good reasons for using SGe and ASM? ...global device naming alone makes it worth it. Doesn't SLVM also get you some MPIO? Too many things missing in an Oracle-only stack to keep track of -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l