On-line migration of Oracle 18c filesystem datafiles to Oracle ASM

Background

Prior to Oracle 12c moving non-ASM data files required taking data files ‘offline’ and negotiating an outage with the business, since Oracle 12c this is has no longer been the case.

I was recently challenged with moving a good size filesystem 18c Oracle database from an existing storage platform to a new storage array.

Prepare ASM Disk Groups

Use sqlplus to create the ASM disk group directories e.g.
$ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM
$ sqlplus / as sysasm

Disk Group +DATA

SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DATA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+DATA/PSTG’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DATA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DATA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+DATA/PSTG/CHANGETRACKING’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DATA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+DATA/PSTG/TEMPFILE’;

Disk Group +CONTROL_REDO

SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP CONTROL_REDO ADD DIRECTORY ‘+CONTROL_REDO/PSTG’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP CONTROL_REDO ADD DIRECTORY ‘+CONTROL_REDO/PSTG/CONTROLFILE’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP CONTROL_REDO ADD DIRECTORY ‘+CONTROL_REDO/PSTG/ONLINELOG’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP CONTROL_REDO ADD DIRECTORY ‘+CONTROL_REDO/PSTG/PARAMETERFILE’;

Disk Group +FRA

SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP FRA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+FRA/PSTG’;
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP FRA ADD DIRECTORY ‘+FRA/PSTG/ARCHIVELOG’;

Identify Datafiles

column dname heading ‘Data File Name’ format a45
column filename heading ‘BCT File Name’ format a45
column tablespace_name heading ‘Tablespace Name’ format a25
column data_mb heading ‘Data MB’ format a10

select file_name as dname, tablespace_name, to_char(bytes/1024/1024,’999,999′) as data_mb from dba_data_files

Data File Name                             Tablespace Name Data MB
———————————————-  ————————- ——
/u02/oradata/PSTG/system01.dbf             SYSTEM  880
/u02/oradata/PSTG/sysaux01.dbf             SYSAUX  990
/u02/oradata/PSTG/sh.dbf                                   SH  512,000
/u02/oradata/PSTG/users01.dbf                  USERS  5
/u02/oradata/PSTG/soe.dbf                              SOE  512,000
/u02/oradata/PSTG/undotbs01.dbf    UNDOTBS1  400

On-line Datafile move

I have a previously blogged on using the Oracle 12c ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE command and you can see the full syntax  on the link above.

SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE ‘/u02/oradata/PSTG/system01.dbf’ TO ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/system01.dbf’;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE ‘/u02/oradata/PSTG/sysaux01.dbf’ TO ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/sysaux01.dbf’;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE ‘/u02/oradata/PSTG/sh.dbf’ TO ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/sh.dbf’;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE ‘/u02/oradata/PSTG/users01.dbf’ TO ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/users01.dbf’;
SQL> ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE ‘/u02/oradata/PSTG/undotbs01.dbf’ TO ‘+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/undotbs01.dbf’;

Monitor Move Progress

Below is a query which uses the V$SESSION_LONOPS view to report progress of the Online data file move operations.

column st heading ‘Start Time’ format a25
column time_remaining heading ‘Time|Remaining’
column elapsed_seconds heading ‘Elaspsed|Seconds’
column sofar heading ‘Sofar’ format a10
column total heading ‘Total’ format a10
column progress heading ‘Progress’ format a10
column message heading ‘Message’ format a100

select to_char(start_time,’DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss’) as st, time_remaining, elapsed_seconds, to_char(SOFAR/1024/1024,’999,999′) || ‘MB’ as sofar, to_char(TOTALWORK/1024/1024,’999,999′) || ‘MB’ as total, to_char((SOFAR/TOTALWORK)*100,’999′) || ‘%’ as progress, message from V$SESSION_LONGOPS;

Example Output

09-AUG-18 14:58:33 0 7 880MB 880MB 100%
Online data file move: data file 1: 922746880 out of 922746880 bytes done

09-AUG-18 15:01:07 0 7 990MB 990MB 100%
Online data file move: data file 3: 1038090240 out of 1038090240 bytes done

09-AUG-18 15:06:34 0 2767 512,000MB 512,000MB 100%
Online data file move: data file 5: 536870912000 out of 536870912000 bytes done

09-AUG-18 15:57:07 2757 38 6,962MB 512,000MB 1%
Online data file move: data file 2: 7300186112 out of 536870912000 bytes done

Updated Data file locations

We can check the file haven been relocated using the same query we ran earlier to identify the datafiles.

select file_name as dname, tablespace_name, to_char(bytes/1024/1024,’999,999′) as data_mb from dba_data_files;

Data File Name Tablespace Name Data MB
——————————————— ————————- ——–
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/system01.dbf SYSTEM 880
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/sysaux01.dbf SYSAUX 1,040
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/sh.dbf SH 512,000
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/users01.dbf USERS 5
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/soe.dbf SOE 512,000
+DATA/PSTG/DATAFILE/undotbs01.dbf UNDOTBS1 400

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