Hi Michael, Anyone who maintains an extended distance cluster will have that experience (I don't have that yet). There are a few of them out there so you are not alone in what you are trying to do. You should explicitly create 2 failure groups, one for all disks in each array. As you already said, ASM normal redundancy will take care of the mirroring. HTH, Martin Martin Bach Oracle Certified Master 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach ----- Reply message ----- From: "Michael Elkin" <melkin4u@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 05:36 Subject: ASM - storage virtualization solution To: "K Gopalakrishnan" <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> That is exactly what we are planing to do , both nodes are in a 11.2 cluster +RAC I am just looking for someone who has an experience with such solution. Michael On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM, K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike, You need to cluster the ASM nodes (CRS+RAC) to mirror the > storage between two arrays. ASM can not mirror independent arrays > without clustering. > > -Gopal > -- Best Regards Michael Elkin