Yes, well very informational. I'm keeping that in mind, when dealing with my vintage 1950s model installs. If there's additional helpful ideas, please feel free to reply to me here.
Hello, today in 2024 are there still possibilities to upgrade in place from rhel 6.10 to rhel 7.9? I'm trying to do it but I can't because the repositories don't work anymore
You should be able to, but you'll have to change the repositories on the machine to point to the updated location for the retired packages as RHEL6 is now End of Maintenance and has moved to the Extended Life Phase of the RHEL Lifecycle. This article describes the updated repos you need: access.redhat.com/articles/4665701 That said, you know that RHEL7 is now End of Maintenance as well, and while it does have Extended Life Support available for the next 4 years as an add-on, you should consider figuring out how to migrate the work being done on this machine to something in the normal lifecycle. Otherwise you're going to continue to chase after End of Maintenance things and run into issues like this one...
@@scottmcbrien6535 Hello friend Show, I'll give it a read, although I currently need to configure rhel 6.10 to be able to install the RedHat upgrade tool, but I can't find a repository that can do this procedure. Is there any way without needing an active subscription?
My C++ Codes were working in RHEL6 and it has runtime issues (Fails to Initialises and Loads Data ) in RHEL7.9 , any idea where should I begin analysing with ? I also tried with g++4.4 compiler which was provided along with RHEL7.9 for backward compatibility
I think recompiling with the gcc provided by RHEL 7.9 is a good first step and the warnings or errors provided by the compilation should provide some indicators of updates that may be required. Additionally, RHEL 7.9 is going End of Maintenance in June 2024, so if you're already going to be refactoring you code, I'd suggest doing it on RHEL8 or RHEL9 so you have a longer useful life.
Well I have a question regarding upgrade, but I am using oracle linux 6 and want to upgrade it to 7.9. I have Oracle EBS R12 running and want it to move on the newer release efficiently. Any suggestion?
Unfortunately, that's not a question for those of us at Red Hat, but is a question for Oracle, since they're the ones that make Oracle Linux. If it were me, since RHEL 7.9 (and I would assume then Oracle 7.9) is weeks away from it's end of maintenance date, I would build a RHEL 8 or 9 machine and use that. RHEL8 just moved to it's 5 year 'maintenance phase', so it's got 5 years before another upgrade is required. RHEL9 is still in Full Support phase, so has another 3 years of that plus 5 years of Maintenance Phase. That all said, I assume Oracle does something similar, but really have no idea...
@@scottmcbrien6535 We have done a rigorous exercise from fresh install of OL8 and running post clone of the EBS. All goes okay, we can login the application but Autoconfig fails for adop patching. Oracle Support has surrendered for OS support. Thats y idea of upgrading the whole OS from 6 to 7 and from 7 to 8 eventually.
I tried to upgrade from EL 6.9 to 7.9, but after the rebooting nothing happened. I'm still in EL 6.10 what should I do ? Due to I tested in the disconnected environment, installed the every single packages which needed to upgrade .
The main problem we see between 6 and 7 is not having all the updates installed prior to starting the upgrade. You might try running a yum update and try again. If that does not work, you can open a ticket with support to get help looking deeper into hour issue!
In order to do an in-place upgrade, you will need to upgrade to 6.10. From there, you can upgrade directly to 7.9. Currently, there is no method for doing upgrades from non-latest minor versions to the next major version.
There is no "perfect" build to support in-place upgrades. However, we'd recommend disabling any applications and unmounting any file systems that don't need to be attached - like anything, the more complicated a build, the higher the risk. Does that help?
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux Recently up on a requirement, I went through inplace upgrade process and there I got to know /usr should not be a separate partion (file system). Like this I'm looking for. Earlier, we don't have inplace upgrade facilities. So, we use to build how ever we want and go with new server build when ever we get new version of OS. So.. to overcome this problem, I'd like to know the recommended way of building a server so that we can choose inplace upgrade and reduce our future work.
@@trivikram5503 This is a limitation of the RHEL 6 to 7 upgrade path but is no longer an issue with the 7 to 8. Best advise we can provide is to look into the In-Place Upgrade documentation for known limitations. (access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index) Upgrades are also a supported operation, so, if you open a case with our team, we can help you resolve specific issues!
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux thanks for the article. I would appreciate if you could make a video, demonstrating what ever mentioned in article. Now a days many people showing interest in learning by going through videos.
We definitely agree! That's why we have been investing heavily in our RUclips channel and social networking presence. Stay tuned for more content! I think you'll love what all we had planned.
I'm working on RHEL6 system thats virtualized that i'm attempting this process on, I've gone through all the steps successfully until I got to the install after I mounted the iso when when i ran I get an error has anyone ran into this issue? so advice would be much appreciated thanks
You might try moving the ISO in question onto the root ( / ) directory and see if that clears up the error. However, if that doesn't help, you should reach out to Red Hat Support to assist with the upgrade process. Hope this helps!
Is there anything like we want to copy everything from old rhel6 server to new rhel7 server? Do we have any tool of this sort? To copy exactly what's there on old server to new?
@@arunachalama7078 Have you asked your OL provider? 😀 I'm unaware of tooling to do this as "everything" probably doesn't mean everything. For example, you wouldn't want to drag all the old binaries to the new system. To that end, having separation for data and content associated with your workload makes this an easier task, but from my experience there's usually something lurking around where you were not expecting it, like a configuration file, or some file in /var that you were not expecting to be needed. As a result, what I generally do is copy over what I can find and fire up the other machine for testing, then resolve errors and iterate from there. Once I think I have it all completed, I would recommend grabbing a full and complete backup of the old system before you fully decommission it. That way, if it turns out there is some random bits that were missed and missed in testing, you can pull content from your backup.
Hello Team, Can i try to Upgrade Bare Metal Physical server from RHEL 6.10 to RHEL 7.9 ? Please let me know if we can Upgrade can you provide me link to follow the steps for the same
Before attempting an in-place upgrade on bare metal, make sure that all of your hardware is still supported. Otherwise, it shouldn't be a problem! access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index
It very much depends on the specs of your system as well as how many packages you have installed. With that disclaimer in mind and the number of variables to consider, when we built the demo for this video, it took approximately 15 minutes for a smaller, vanilla VM. The more complex your system, the longer we would expect it to take above that. Hope this helps!
We have a whole document on the procedure: access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index
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Yes, well very informational. I'm keeping that in mind, when dealing with my vintage 1950s model installs. If there's additional helpful ideas, please feel free to reply to me here.
Love it! Glad this video was helpful.
Hello, today in 2024 are there still possibilities to upgrade in place from rhel 6.10 to rhel 7.9? I'm trying to do it but I can't because the repositories don't work anymore
You should be able to, but you'll have to change the repositories on the machine to point to the updated location for the retired packages as RHEL6 is now End of Maintenance and has moved to the Extended Life Phase of the RHEL Lifecycle. This article describes the updated repos you need:
access.redhat.com/articles/4665701
That said, you know that RHEL7 is now End of Maintenance as well, and while it does have Extended Life Support available for the next 4 years as an add-on, you should consider figuring out how to migrate the work being done on this machine to something in the normal lifecycle. Otherwise you're going to continue to chase after End of Maintenance things and run into issues like this one...
@@scottmcbrien6535 Hello friend
Show, I'll give it a read, although I currently need to configure rhel 6.10 to be able to install the RedHat upgrade tool, but I can't find a repository that can do this procedure.
Is there any way without needing an active subscription?
@@marcusbraves Not that I know of as you'll need that active subscription in order to access the RHEL 7 stuff you'll need for the upgrade as well.
My C++ Codes were working in RHEL6 and it has runtime issues (Fails to Initialises and Loads Data ) in RHEL7.9 , any idea where should I begin analysing with ?
I also tried with g++4.4 compiler which was provided along with RHEL7.9 for backward compatibility
I think recompiling with the gcc provided by RHEL 7.9 is a good first step and the warnings or errors provided by the compilation should provide some indicators of updates that may be required.
Additionally, RHEL 7.9 is going End of Maintenance in June 2024, so if you're already going to be refactoring you code, I'd suggest doing it on RHEL8 or RHEL9 so you have a longer useful life.
Awesome
Well I have a question regarding upgrade, but I am using oracle linux 6 and want to upgrade it to 7.9. I have Oracle EBS R12 running and want it to move on the newer release efficiently. Any suggestion?
Unfortunately, that's not a question for those of us at Red Hat, but is a question for Oracle, since they're the ones that make Oracle Linux.
If it were me, since RHEL 7.9 (and I would assume then Oracle 7.9) is weeks away from it's end of maintenance date, I would build a RHEL 8 or 9 machine and use that. RHEL8 just moved to it's 5 year 'maintenance phase', so it's got 5 years before another upgrade is required. RHEL9 is still in Full Support phase, so has another 3 years of that plus 5 years of Maintenance Phase.
That all said, I assume Oracle does something similar, but really have no idea...
You’ll want to consult Oracle documentation and support for help upgrading Oracle Linux.
@@scottmcbrien6535 We have done a rigorous exercise from fresh install of OL8 and running post clone of the EBS. All goes okay, we can login the application but Autoconfig fails for adop patching. Oracle Support has surrendered for OS support. Thats y idea of upgrading the whole OS from 6 to 7 and from 7 to 8 eventually.
Great, thks
I tried to upgrade from EL 6.9 to 7.9, but after the rebooting nothing happened. I'm still in EL 6.10 what should I do ?
Due to I tested in the disconnected environment, installed the every single packages which needed to upgrade .
The main problem we see between 6 and 7 is not having all the updates installed prior to starting the upgrade.
You might try running a yum update and try again.
If that does not work, you can open a ticket with support to get help looking deeper into hour issue!
Hello
I need to upgrade from 6.5 to 7.6 and then 7.9
Can I do it ?
In order to do an in-place upgrade, you will need to upgrade to 6.10. From there, you can upgrade directly to 7.9. Currently, there is no method for doing upgrades from non-latest minor versions to the next major version.
It would be greatful if you could tell us the recommended way of server build which supports inplace upgrade for RHEL6,7 and 8
There is no "perfect" build to support in-place upgrades. However, we'd recommend disabling any applications and unmounting any file systems that don't need to be attached - like anything, the more complicated a build, the higher the risk. Does that help?
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux
Recently up on a requirement, I went through inplace upgrade process and there I got to know /usr should not be a separate partion (file system).
Like this I'm looking for.
Earlier, we don't have inplace upgrade facilities. So, we use to build how ever we want and go with new server build when ever we get new version of OS.
So.. to overcome this problem, I'd like to know the recommended way of building a server so that we can choose inplace upgrade and reduce our future work.
@@trivikram5503 This is a limitation of the RHEL 6 to 7 upgrade path but is no longer an issue with the 7 to 8. Best advise we can provide is to look into the In-Place Upgrade documentation for known limitations. (access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index)
Upgrades are also a supported operation, so, if you open a case with our team, we can help you resolve specific issues!
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux thanks for the article.
I would appreciate if you could make a video, demonstrating what ever mentioned in article. Now a days many people showing interest in learning by going through videos.
We definitely agree! That's why we have been investing heavily in our RUclips channel and social networking presence. Stay tuned for more content! I think you'll love what all we had planned.
I'm working on RHEL6 system thats virtualized that i'm attempting this process on, I've gone through all the steps successfully until I got to the install after I mounted the iso when when i ran I get an error has anyone ran into this issue? so advice would be much appreciated thanks
You might try moving the ISO in question onto the root ( / ) directory and see if that clears up the error. However, if that doesn't help, you should reach out to Red Hat Support to assist with the upgrade process. Hope this helps!
Is there anything like we want to copy everything from old rhel6 server to new rhel7 server? Do we have any tool of this sort? To copy exactly what's there on old server to new?
Are you talking about moving data from one instance to another? Like a lift-and-shift?
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux Yes , is there anything like such wants to copy ol6 data's to ol7 and then to ol8?
@@arunachalama7078 Have you asked your OL provider? 😀
I'm unaware of tooling to do this as "everything" probably doesn't mean everything. For example, you wouldn't want to drag all the old binaries to the new system. To that end, having separation for data and content associated with your workload makes this an easier task, but from my experience there's usually something lurking around where you were not expecting it, like a configuration file, or some file in /var that you were not expecting to be needed. As a result, what I generally do is copy over what I can find and fire up the other machine for testing, then resolve errors and iterate from there. Once I think I have it all completed, I would recommend grabbing a full and complete backup of the old system before you fully decommission it. That way, if it turns out there is some random bits that were missed and missed in testing, you can pull content from your backup.
Hello Team,
Can i try to Upgrade Bare Metal Physical server from RHEL 6.10 to RHEL 7.9 ? Please let me know if we can Upgrade can you provide me link to follow the steps for the same
Before attempting an in-place upgrade on bare metal, make sure that all of your hardware is still supported. Otherwise, it shouldn't be a problem!
access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index
Will this also migrate application such as splunk or other application?
As long as the applications are in the RHEL repositories, you _should_ be able to migrate them with little issue.
Hi ..
Can same upgrade is applicable for public cloud env.
please guide
You can upgrade your RHEL instance anywhere!
@Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
How much time does it take to do an in place upgrade from EL 6.10 to 7.9?
It very much depends on the specs of your system as well as how many packages you have installed. With that disclaimer in mind and the number of variables to consider, when we built the demo for this video, it took approximately 15 minutes for a smaller, vanilla VM. The more complex your system, the longer we would expect it to take above that. Hope this helps!
@@RedHatEnterpriseLinux 15 minutes sounds great. Thank you.
Can we upgrade from Rhel 6.10 to Rhel 8 ?? ….
Since Rhel 6.10 is going for end of the life from july and redhat won’t be able to troubleshoot further ?
@Red hat enterprise : so useful, can you please share the commands , that would be great helpful
We have a whole document on the procedure:
access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_7/index
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Thank you for watching!