On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:40:33 +0000, stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a collection of systems proposed where a set (I'm > delibaerately avoiding the word 'cluster' here as we're not talking > RAC) of Sun V440 boxes will be running Oracle instances attached to a > NetApp 920c filer cluster providing storage. Each server will be > running one live production database and one hot standby (dataguard) > of one of the database for which the live database is on one of the > other servers. Stephen, I'm not sure why you are running a standby if everything is pointing at the same filer (using NFS, right?). From your description it sounds like everything is on the NAS (including $ORACLE_ADMIN) and all the databases should have individual names. If server A dies, walk over to server B and resurrect the databases whose instances were on A. If you don't have all of the volumes mounted on each server, you'll just have one added step of adding a mount. Am I missing something? (Easy enough to do...) Steven -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l