I agree with Alan. I have had problems with ASM on thin provisioned disks. Steve Harville<https://apex.appshosting.com/pls/apex/f?p=1076:steveharville> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > There are some dangers with Thin Provisioning and overallocation, > especially where ASM is involved. I've had a database go up in smoke due to > this and had to restore from a backup. I've kinda steered clear of thin > provisioning for databases since then :P > > Alan.- > > >