Hi Mike, I saw the article and getting ASMlib to work with PowerPath is the challenge. The article might claim that they can work togther by setting ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE="emcpower" but in reality we could'nt get this to work. I will wait till PowerPath 4.5. Raj On 11/8/05, Mike Killough <mwkillough@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Raj, > > Metalink Note:309815.1 explains how to setup PowerPath and ASMLib. I > haven't > done this myself. > > For multipathing, mdadm was forced upon us. We were not able to get that > to > work with ASMLib either, so we also mapped the md devices to rawdevices. > > We could mark the disk as an ASM disk using oracleasm createdisk, but the > create diskgroup command would fail with: > > ORA-15031: disk specification 'ORCL:DISK3' matches no disks > > Mike > > > > >Nothing is lost using rawdevices. ASMlib probably provides ease of > >management. You can use either ASMlib or PowerPath and not both. > > Raj> > Raj > > >