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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Oracle Database: ASRU Utility

In this blog I detail what is ASRU and where it can be used. 

ASRU is Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Thin Reclamation Utility. 

It is used for thin storages
Details of utility and its stages can be found here 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/oracle-automatic-storage-management-132797.pdf
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/oracle-asru-3par.pdf

ASRU is a very old utility from time of 11g, however it is still valid for 12c/18c/19c version of cluster 

You can download AS
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/cloud-storage/asru-175568.zip

ASRU can be very useful in lot of vases

Doc ID's for reference
How To Validate ASM Diskgroup Consistency/State After ASM Reclamation Utility (ASRU) Execution Aborted. (Doc ID 1668673.1)

To run ASRU
As Grid Infra Ower
ASRU <DG_NAME>

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