Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

Hi Erkam,

As the majority of customers have already migrated due to RHEL7 EOL last year, we have no plans to revisit our migration procedure. 

Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

Hi Erkam,

As the majority of customers have already migrated due to RHEL7 EOL last year, we have no plans to revisit our migration procedure. 

Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

Hi Martin,

We stuck in RHEL7 and V50 for few years and recently plan to upgrade to RHEL8 with V51, what's your suggested procedure?

Hi Erkam,

As the majority of customers have already migrated due to RHEL7 EOL last year, we have no plans to revisit our migration procedure. 

Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

You can get the v50 version of the documentation from https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7237429. The documentation explains how to migrate from v50 RHEL 7 to v50 RHEL 8.

Hi Martin,

We stuck in RHEL7 and V50 for few years and recently plan to upgrade to RHEL8 with V51, what's your suggested procedure?

Hi Erkam,

As the majority of customers have already migrated due to RHEL7 EOL last year, we have no plans to revisit our migration procedure. 

Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

Thanks Ben,

But seems the link is not accessable anymore.

And we are thinking if we can deploy a new V51 in RHEL8 and migrate current v50 to it directly.

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Yi XIE

Original Message:
Sent: Fri October 10, 2025 08:29 AM
From: BEN WILLIAMS
Subject: RHEL8 Upgrade without New Deployment For IBM QRadar SOAR

You can get the v50 version of the documentation from https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7237429. The documentation explains how to migrate from v50 RHEL 7 to v50 RHEL 8.

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BEN WILLIAMS

Original Message:
Sent: Thu October 09, 2025 09:49 AM
From: Yi XIE
Subject: RHEL8 Upgrade without New Deployment For IBM QRadar SOAR

Hi Martin,

We stuck in RHEL7 and V50 for few years and recently plan to upgrade to RHEL8 with V51, what's your suggested procedure?

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Yi XIE

Original Message:
Sent: Fri February 07, 2025 04:35 AM
From: Martin Feeney
Subject: RHEL8 Upgrade without New Deployment For IBM QRadar SOAR

Hi Erkam,

As the majority of customers have already migrated due to RHEL7 EOL last year, we have no plans to revisit our migration procedure. 

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Martin Feeney
Product Manager, IBM Security QRadar SOAR
martin.feeney@ie.ibm.com

Original Message:
Sent: Thu January 16, 2025 10:23 AM
From: Erkam Çetiner
Subject: RHEL8 Upgrade without New Deployment For IBM QRadar SOAR

Hello All,

Current procedure of upgrade is as we all know taking a backup of current deployment to import it to newly deployed V50 RHEL8 version. I can't understand still why we are doing that. IBM QRadar upgrades its RHEL version without that nonsense procedure. I think there should be same for IBM QRadar SOAR.

Do you think we have to follow that procedure or will IBM change that situation with releasing a upgrade method like IBM QRadar?

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Erkam Çetiner
Senior SOC Specialist
erkamcetinerwork@gmail.com
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