with external redundancy, there's no redundancy at the ASM level. ASM needs to keep the different disks (as they are called in ASM, it could very well be SAN slices, lvols) in balance, that is the same with all redundancy levels, including external redundancy. frits On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > If we use ASM with external redundancy does this mean that when we add or > drop disks from diskgroups we would not have rebalancing issues at all ? > (since striping and mirrioring is carried out by external hardware RAID) > > > regards > Hrishy > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >