I have done it many times as well successfully but there is one caveat (actually more but version dependant): which version are you using? and do you need to relocate the OCR and vote? 10.2 with the vote does require a small outage (look at the note): OCR / Vote disk Maintenance Operations: (ADD/REMOVE/REPLACE/MOVE) [ID 428681.1] The others are bug related such as the following: Bug 8339404 ORA-1578 - Blocks can be misplaced in ASM during a REBALANCE" Bug is confirmed bug in 10.2.0.2, 10.2.0.4, 11.1.0.6 and 11.1.0.7 Rui Amaral Database Administrator ITS - SSG TD Bank Financial Group 220 Bay St., 11th Floor Toronto, ON, CA, M5K1A2 (bb) (647) 204-9106 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of goran bogdanovic Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:48 AM To: ksmadduri@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle Freelists Subject: Re: ASM for data migration done many times with EMC powerpath w/o downtime ... ASM rocks ;-) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Kumar Madduri <ksmadduri@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ksmadduri@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi Can ASM be used to migrate data from one SAN array to another SAN array without any downtime and when users are online. Thank you Kumar NOTICE: Confidential message which may be privileged. Unauthorized use/disclosure prohibited. If received in error, please go to www.td.com/legal for instructions. AVIS : Message confidentiel dont le contenu peut être privilégié. Utilisation/divulgation interdites sans permission. Si reçu par erreur, prière d'aller au www.td.com/francais/avis_juridique pour des instructions.