<<Back to Oracle RAC Main Page How to recreate GIMR diskgroup oracle RAC CREATE DISKGROUP GIMR NORMAL REDUNDANCY SITE S1 FAILGROUP GIMR_S1 DISK 'AFD:DISK1' SITE S2 FAILGROUP GIMR_S2 DISK 'AFD:DISK2' ATTRIBUTE 'compatible.asm'='12.1.0.0' , 'compatible.rdbms'='12.1.0.0'; CREATE DISKGROUP GIMR * ERROR at line 1: ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created ORA-15030: diskgroup name "GIMR" is in use by another diskgroup Reason: I dropped the disk group GIMR using sqlplus and tried to create it again with the same name ended with above error message Solution Though the diskgroup does not exists I dropped it again using asmcmd . Created the diskgroup again it worked ASMCMD> dropdg -r -f GIMR;
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