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Upgrade In Place from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is at the end of its life. Therefore it is more important than ever to move your workloads into a supportable state. The redhat-upgrade-tool provides you the mechanism you need to start running RHEL 7 while maintaining your customizations, configurations, and preferences.

Learn more: https://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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16 thoughts on “Upgrade In Place from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 7

  • 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?

  • 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

  • @Red hat enterprise : so useful, can you please share the commands , that would be great helpful

  • 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 .

  • 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?

  • 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 <redhat-upgrade-tool –iso /media/rhel-7.9 server.x86_64 –cleanup-post> I get an error <redhat-upgrade-tool: not a regular file: /media/> has anyone ran into this issue? so advice would be much appreciated thanks

  • 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

  • @Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
    How much time does it take to do an in place upgrade from EL 6.10 to 7.9?

  • 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.

  • It would be greatful if you could tell us the recommended way of server build which supports inplace upgrade for RHEL6,7 and 8

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