Red Hat Enterprise Linux Upgrade Helper
This application assists you to upgrade your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the following upgrade paths and architectures.
The supported minor release number for the upgrade is different upon the system architecture.
- RHEL 6.10 into RHEL 7.9
- 64-bit Intel
- IBM POWER, big endian
- 64-bit IBM Z
- RHEL 7.9 into RHEL 8.6 or RHEL 8.8 (default)
- 64-bit Intel
- IBM POWER 8, little endian
- 64-bit IBM Z
- RHEL 7.6 into RHEL 8.4
- IBM POWER 9 , little endian
- IBM Z (Structure A)
- RHEL 8.6 into RHEL 9.0
- 64-bit Intel, AMD, and ARM
- IBM POWER, little endian
- 64-bit IBM Z
- RHEL 8.8 into RHEL 9.2
- 64-bit Intel, AMD, and ARM
- IBM POWER, little endian
- 64-bit IBM Z
The only information you need to provide are your upgrade path, system architecture, and repository type. This application shows you:
- The basic steps to upgrade Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Extra steps that prevent known issues specific to your upgrade scenario
Notes:
- For more information about supported upgrade paths, see Supported in-place upgrade paths for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Upgrading RHEL6 to RHEL8 is possible by executing the two upgrades (RHEL6 to RHEL7 and RHEL7 to RHEL8) sequentially. All requirements from both upgrades needs to be met on RHEL6. Refer to Upgrading from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8 for the pre-requirements.
- The in-place upgrade of RHEL 6 with SAP HANA can be performed from RHEL 6.10 to RHEL 7.4 only. Refer to How do I upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with SAP HANA for checking the special requirement for SAP HANA and the upgrade steps.
- The in-place upgrade of RHEL 7 with SAP HANA can be performed from RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.2 or RHEL 8.6. Refer to How to in-place upgrade SAP environments from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 for checking the special requirement for SAP HANA and the upgrade steps.
- The in-place upgrade of RHEL 8 with SAP HANA can be performed from RHEL 8.6 to RHEL 9.0 only. Refer to How to in-place upgrade SAP environments from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9 for checking the special requirement for SAP HANA and the upgrade steps.
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Log InI have version 5.9 and was looking for upgrade paths
Hi Carl, We do not support the update from RHEL 5 to RHEL 7. Thanks.
i have a version RHEL 7.3 and how i can upgrade to RHEL 7.4
Hi John,
This tool only support the RHEL upgrade from 6 to 7.
If your system has been registered to RHSM, it is very easy for you to upgrade RHEL from 7.3 to 7.4 beta (7.4 hasn't been released yet).
Run the following commands to upgrade:
After successful completion of above commands just reboot your system.
Hi is there a solution to roll back the upgrade from rhel 7 to 6 ?
Hi Michael,
Downgrade is not in the scope of this application. You may want to open a support case to pursue a solution for your problem.
Thanks, Dong
While running pre-check getting error: The module checks for EFI and it forbids an in-place upgrade when the EFI boot loader is present. Is there any fix ?
Hello, when attempting to upgrade RHEL 6.10 to RHEL 7.9.0, I ran the "redhat-upgrade-tool --iso --cleanup-post command and I got back an error message saying something like: "redhat-upgrade tool is compatible only up to RHEL 7.2."
Any help is greatly appreciated!
This assumes that dnf is already present on the system, which is not the case on any of our RHEL 7.9 lab servers.