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you may face a situation where you have to multiplex controlfile across multiple diskgroups especially after the database is created.However with ASM this activity is not simple enough just as in filesystem when we simply copy files from one folder/directory to another and edit the init.ora.
I assume you are using OMF feature by setting […]

The preferred way of doing the file movement amoung ASM DISKGROUPS is using RMAN. RMAN is critical to Automatic Storage Management and is responsible for tracking the ASM filenames and for deleting obsolete ASM files. Since ASM files cannot be accessed through normal operating system interfaces, RMAN is the preferred means of copying ASM file.
The […]