Best practice of 11G release 2 Grid & RAC installation on Solaris 10

Hi Experts,
Please share 11g Release 2 Grid infrastructure and RAC installation experiennce on Sun SPARC.
Appreciate if you can provide documentation which provde complete information from server setup to database setup(other than oracle documentaion)
Also please let me know which is the best storage option( NFS , ASM,...) and pros and cons
Regards,
Rasin M

Hi,
Appreciate if you can provide documentation which provde complete information from server setup to database setup(other than oracle documentaion)Check this in MOS:
RAC Assurance Support Team: RAC Starter Kit and Best Practices (Solaris)
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=811280.1&type=NOT
Regards,
Levi Pereira
http://levipereira.wordpress.com

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