There are a lot of upgrades 12c in some small features, but they are very useful for the disk group management. Added replace a disk characteristics,
the official document describes replace operations faster and more efficient than drop, add the disk. Only the more efficient synchronous data faster, rebalance process faster.
grammar:
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP data REPLACE DISK disk001 WITH '/dev/asmdiska' POWER 3{force|noforce};
Disk name obtained by querying v $ asm_disk's name.