Best Practices for Minimal Downtime Migration to ASM Oracle 10g Release 2

This paper describes procedures to dramatically reduce downtime during the process of migrating Oracle databases residing on raw partitions, volumes or conventional file systems to Automatic Storage Management (ASM) by using Oracle Recovery MANager (RMAN) and Oracle Data Guard. This paper is equally relevant to existing Data Guard users who want to migrate to ASM, and users who do not currently use Data Guard, but who seek to minimize downtime during migration to ASM.