You list a lot of players in this technology stack you are implementing that are taking bucket loads of money from you. You should give them a call. MetaLink 294869.1 is out of date. ________________________________ Greetings I am trying to setup RAC 10gRel2 on sun solaris 10 Storage is NetApp Based. We use VxVM and DMP, Had no luck in ASM formatting the storage allocated. It Can see the devices not two but 4 because of DMP. started witn OCS, and ASM The following Metalink Note: 294869.1 Sub: Oracle ASM and Multi-Pathing Technologies gives me that: SUN - DMP Currently it is not supported to have ASM over VxVM logical devices or DMP devices.