Hi here you go 1. Do you use ASM? YES Complete the following when you say YES to the above question: 2. Which OS - AIX, Linux, Windows and Solaris 3. Do you use ASM for a single instance? Yes but only for Cold Failover Clustes with Clusterware 4. Have you ever performed the migration? non-ASM to ASM? NO 5. Which redundancy option have you used? External and Normal 6. Do you think the Oracle document about ASM is sufficient enough? Bad, not enough 7. Do you think a seaprate ASM administratore is required to manage ASM instance? NO 8. Do you think ASM is very much stable? YES 9. Do you recommend ASM? YES but only for RAC, single instance can stick with filesystems 10. Do you think managing ASM is very easy? NO but probably because we have not faced any problems yet, I am sure things will get complicated Thanks -- LSC