FYI Delphix has automated cross platform provisioning and they have a 30 day trial available via download http://pages.delphix.com/Free-Trial-Request.html Here is some info about Delphix cross platform provisioning http://datavirtualizer.com/oracle-cross-platform-provisioning-magic-from-the-mess/ - Kyle Hailey http://datavirtualizer.com On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:26 AM, David Barbour <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good Morning, > > We're running Oracle 11.2.0.3 on HPUX 64-bit Itanium using conventional > cooked filesystems. Need to move this to a Linux x86 64-bit, also running > 11.2.0.3. Due to the size of this thing, I'd like to use transportable > tablespaces. I've done this before using cooked filesystem to cooked file > system, and asm to asm, but never from cooked to asm. I don't anticipate > any problems, but I'd like to end up with OMF names. > > I plan to convert the tablespaces on the source and put the resulting > converted files into a directory I can nfs mount to the new server. > > > The metadata will be extracted using DataPump. When I've got the > converted files attached to the new server and invoke impdp with the > TRANSPORT_DATAFILES= parameter, will these automatically be converted to > OMF if I have the db_create_file_dest set to the ASM data volume for this > database? > > Any useful insights regarding the move gained through experience would be > appreciated as well. > > > > >