I would suggest your first option. It may take longer for ASM to rebalance the data, but you can do it without downtime. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Luka Grah <luka.grah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hellow! > > I have one question about switching external storage for Oracle RDBMS. > Oracle uses ASM and disk devices are masked using symbolic links. > > We want to change storage - we bought a new storage arry . > For moving Oracle I was considering two options for ASM data migration: > > - Using ASM, add new disks and drop the old one and let ASM rebalance data. > > - To copy data using storage tools and then just change symbolic links > locations. > > > Would the second method work? > > > Regards, > Luka Grah > -- Jason Heinrich