Changing Failgroup of ASM Disks in Exadata

There was a discrepancy in the failgroups of couple of ASM disks in Exadata. In Exadata, the cell name corresponds to the failgroup name. But there were couple of disks with different failgroup names. Using the following plan to rectify the issue online without any downtime:

1) Check disks and their failgroup:

col name format a27
col path format a45

SQL> select path,failgroup,mount_status,mode_status,header_status,state from v$asm_disk order by failgroup, path;

o/100.100.00.000/DBFSDG_CD_09_mycellnet0    mycellNET0             CACHED  ONLINE  MEMBER      NORMAL
o/100.100.00.000/DATA_CD_08_mycellnet0      mycell_NET0             CACHED  ONLINE  MEMBER      NORMAL

2) Drop Disks:

ALTER DISKGROUP DATA DROP DISK  DATA_CD_08_mycellnet0 REBALANCE POWER 32;

3) Wait for rebalanacing to finish

select * from gv$asm_operation;

4) Add the disks to the correct failgroups

ALTER DISKGROUP DATA ADD failgroup mycellNET0 DISK ‘o/100.100.00.000/DATA_CD_08_mycellnet0’ rebalance power 32;

— Wait for rebalance to complete.

5) select * from v$asm_operation;

6) Verify the incorrect failgroup has gone

select name,path,failgroup from v$asm_disk  where failgroup in (‘mycell_NET0’) order by name;

select path,failgroup,mount_status,mode_status,header_status,state from v$asm_disk order by failgroup, path;