Daniel, as far as I understand ASM, there is realy no problem. even if the Disks are of different size.I did this between at least 3 different Storage Boxes at work, works really great.
One big advantage from my point of view: you really only exchange the disks. the DB remains the same (which is not true by exp/imp). And of course, there is NO downtime. A good side-effect: the more DMLs are running, the faster the SAN-exchange is running :-)
If your SA is not sure, ask him to do a prove: either he or you can be right, a little test can show.
hth Martin Am 11.03.2010 um 20:50 schrieb Daniel Fink:
We got a George Carlin-esque "Well...I'm not sure about that" response from an SA about that particular scenario.We will be adding disks from a different SAN (SAN2) and then dropping disks from the original SAN (SAN1). Do you see any problems with this?Taking the database down is not a problem. It is a non-production system that we have permission to down...but the team also want it back up as soon as possible.
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