UpgradingEdit online Upgrade to an IBM Storage Ceph cluster running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures. Supported upgrade and crossgrade pathsUpgrade to IBM Storage Ceph based on the support that is provided by IBM.Upgrading an IBM Storage Ceph cluster using cephadmAs a storage administrator, you can use the cephadm Orchestrator to upgrade to IBM Storage Ceph 7.1 with the ceph orch upgrade command.Upgrading a host operating system from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9You can perform a IBM Storage Ceph host operating system upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 using the Leapp utility.Upgrading IBM Storage Ceph 5 to 7 involving RHEL 8 to RHEL 9 upgrades with stretch mode enabledYou can perform an upgrade from IBM Storage Ceph 5 to IBM Storage Ceph 7.1 involving Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with the stretch mode enabled.Staggered upgradeAs a storage administrator, you can upgrade IBM Storage Ceph components in phases rather than all at once.Monitoring and managing upgradeMonitor and manage the upgrade of the storage cluster, after upgrading.