Oracle Error ORA-15291: ASM could not add disk “string” to disk group “string”

Oracle Error Message

ORA-15291: ASM could not add disk “string” to disk group “string”

Reason for the Error

An attempt was made to add a disk to a disk group while the distribution of disks in failure groups was too uneven.

Solution

Add or drop disks to or from failure groups to balance their distribution in all failure groups and retry the operation.