I would need steps for converting non rac instance to 2 node rac instance. I tried in test environment using expdp/impdp.It takes me 5 hours downtime. is it possible to migrate non rac instance to rac instance using data guard.Please suggest any other metahodology which takes less downtime.I could not able to find in meta link notes for this. If anyone have step for achieving this or please share notes id. Source: os:RHEL5.3 oracle:10g non rac and non asm. Destination: os:RHEL5.3 oracle:10g clusterware:11g 2 node rac Regards Krishna -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l