Oracle ASM is a storage management solution for Oracle databases and clusters providing volume management and a filesystem,

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How to monitor space usage on ASM diskgroups

Last night the recovery area on one of our Oracle Database Appliances went full. This was reported in one of the database alert logs, and we were able to clear out some space before the next log ...
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Add additional disks to FRA diskgroup in ASM

We're running Oracle 11.2.0.3 with a two node RAC and our FRA diskgroup is running low on space. I need to allocate some more disks to it through ASM. I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I can ...
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How many control files should I have?

On the Oracle Database Appliance, the default deployment only gives you a single control file. I find this a little puzzling. The single control file causes a policy violation in the automatically ...
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Shutdown one node in RAC

I want to shutdown one node in RAC. I did the following steps: Shutdown database instance export ORACLE_SID=mydb1 sqlplus / as sysdba shutdown immediate; shutdown ASM instance . oraenv +ASM1 ...
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asm diskgroup drop from another asm instance

I have created long time back one ASM RAC setup and I created one diskgroup with some name say xyz. I think that instance is gone but the diskgroup was not dropped exclusively using command drop ...
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Oracle ASM failover strategies

I inherited a production system with the following setup: Disk A, Failgroup AB Disk B, Failgroup AB Disk C, Failgroup CD Disk D, Failgroup CD Diskgroups AB and CD are configured with normal ...
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How do I have Oracle ASM scan for and repair uncorrectable ECC errors (bad sectors)?

I'm running Oracle ASM (11gR2) with normal redundancy on SATA disks (WD Raptors). This is on a physical standby database, if it matters. Occasionally, disk sectors develop read errors (ECC failures). ...