we just put a similar sytem into a test phase Here is our setup 2 Sun fire v240 Hitachi SAN, presented 3 LUNS to both the servers, installed oracle on both nodes. Oracle 9.2.0.8 and Solaris 10 ...sorry for hijacking this thread, but this post got me thinking. Oracle9i is 6 year old software. I see this deployment is in test phase (presumably headed for production). I wonder how many 9i databases are getting deployed these days?