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Add disks to ASM diskgroup

Oracle Database Tips by Donald BurlesonOctober 2, 2015

Question: How do I add a disk volume to an ASM diskgroup?

Answer: Adding Disks to a Disk Group is done with the "alter diskgroup" command.
Oracle provides the alter diskgroup command to adding or removing physical disks within SQL*Plus:

First we identify the ASM diskgroup where we want to add the disk:

select
group_number,
name
from
v$asm_diskgroup;

Next, we identify the disks to see which disk should be added to the diskgroup:
select
mount_status,
header_status,
mode_status,
state,
total_mb,
free_mb,
name,
path,
label
from
v$asm_disk;

Now, we can add the disk to the ASM diskgroup:

alter diskgroup
my_diskgroup
add disk
'/devices/rhdisk1';

Here are other examples of adding a disk to an ASM diskgroup:

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ALTER DISKGROUP
dgroup1
ADD DISK
'/devices/diska5' NAME diska5,
'/devices/diska6' NAME diska6;

ALTER DISKGROUP dgroup1 ADD DISK

'/devices/diska*';

When a disk is added to the diskgroupand it is formatted and then rebalanced.

When you don't specify a FAILGROUP clause when adding a disk to a ASM diskgroup, the disk is in its own failure group.

If you don't specify the NAME clause when adding a disk to a ASM diskgroup, Oracle assigns its own system-generated names.

If the disk already belongs to an ASM disk group, the statement will fail.

Use the FORCE clause to add a disk that is a current member of disk group.

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