Saturday, February 17, 2018

Execute ASM Rebalance 1 time while adding & droppping disks

Sometimes it is required to add disks and drop disks sequentially in ASM environments. For example diskgroup migration between SAN , disk arrays etc .. , the disks are added and dropped . In this situation as default rebalance operation executes after every add & drop statements . 

alter diskgroup DATA add disk 
'ASMNEWDDISK_1',
'ASMNEWDDISK_2',
'ASMNEWDDISK_3' rebalance power 4;


alter diskgroup DATA drop disk 
'ASMOLDDDISK_1,
'ASMOLDDDISK_2,
'ASMOLDDDISK_3' rebalance power 4;

With this above statements rebalance operation executes 2 times , and not necessary. In order to execute rebalance in one operation , following statement can be used.

alter diskgroup DATA add disk 
'ASMNEWDDISK_1',
'ASMNEWDDISK_2',
'ASMNEWDDISK_3' 
drop disk 
'ASMOLDDDISK_1,
'ASMOLDDDISK_2,
'ASMOLDDDISK_3' rebalance power 4;

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