Question

What status to be check before adding disks to ASM Diskgroup?

Answer 1

Candidate or Provisioned.

 

Disks that were discovered, but that have not yet been assigned to a disk group, have a status of either CANDIDATE or PROVISIONED.

Answer 2

SELECT name, header_status, path FROM V$ASM_DISK;

NAME      HEADER_STATUS PATH
--------- ------------- ---------------------
          CANDIDATE     /dev/rdsk/disk07
DISK06    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk06
DISK05    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk05
DISK04    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk04
DISK03    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk03
DISK02    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk02
DISK01    MEMBER        /dev/rdsk/disk01

7 rows selected.