Chapter 1. Supported upgrade paths


The in-place upgrade replaces the RHEL 7 operating system (OS) on your system with a RHEL 8 version.

Currently, it is possible to perform an in-place upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 on the following versions:

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Table 1.1. Supported upgrade paths
System configurationSource OS versionTarget OS version

RHEL

RHEL 7.9

RHEL 8.10

RHEL with SAP HANA

For more information about supported upgrade paths, see Supported in-place upgrade paths for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the In-place upgrade Support Policy.

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