Move ASM database files from one diskgroup to another

In the past week, I have been involved in a migration of a standalone database to RAC with ASM through datab pump export and import.  After the migration was done, one of the ASM diskgroup is more than 98% percent used, which triggerred alerts from BMC Patrol, which is a standard monitoring tool in my working environment. Searching My Oracle Support website, I found the following note:

How to move ASM database files from one diskgroup to another ? (Doc ID 330103.1)


The note is pretty straight forword, however, there was a one suprise when I tried to offline a datafile :

ORA-01145: offline immediate disallowed unless media recovery enabled

That was because I put the db in noarchivelog mode in order to speed up the data pump import jobs. After I configured the archivelog mode, thing went fine.

Here are the steps I followed for future reference

1) Identify the data file to be moved

+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf            NON_TTQ_CLB_MSG
2)  Identify the diskgroup on to which the file has to be moved.

+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile

3) Take the file offline.

 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf' OFFLINE;

4. Copy the data file

I used DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER package. We can also use RMAN, detail see the note.
     
          
create or replace directory orcl1 as '+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile';
        
create or replace directory orcl2 as '+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile';
      
 Note, if need to create a directory in a diskgroup, syntax looks like

 ASM> Alter disgroup asmdsk2 add directory  '+asmdsk2/test';        
       
BEGIN
 DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER.COPY_FILE(
 source_directory_object => 'ORCL1',
 source_file_name => 'non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf',
 destination_directory_object => 'ORCL2',
 destination_file_name => 'non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf');
END;                          
/


5) Rename the file to point to new location.

ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE '+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf' TO
 '+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf' ;

6) Recover the file.

  RECOVER DATAFILE '+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf'

7) Bring the file online.

 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf' online;


8) Verify the new file location.
         
SQL> SELECT FILE_NAME FROM DBA_DATA_FILES where file_name like '%clb_msg%';

FILE_NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
+DATA_09/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_01.dbf
+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_02.dbf
+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_03.dbf
+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_04.dbf
+DATA_01/roeprdsc/datafile/non_ttq_clb_msg_05.dbf
..



9) Delete the file from its original location either per SQLPLUS or per ASMCMD:

Syntax examples:

SQL:ASM> ALTER DISKGROUP ASMDSK2 DROP FILE users.256.565313879;

or:   ASMCMD> rm -rf 

Note:
Most Automatic Storage Management files do not need to be manually deleted because, as Oracle managed files, they are removed automatically when they are no longer needed. ( To not to have the alert come again, I have to do this)