Upgrading 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 the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph by using the ceph orch upgrade command.Upgrading IBM Storage Ceph 6 to 8 involving RHEL 8 to RHEL 9 upgrades with stretch mode enabledYou can perform an upgrade from IBM Storage Ceph 6 to IBM Storage Ceph 8.1 involving Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with the stretch mode enabled.Running a staggered upgradeAs a storage administrator, you can upgrade IBM Storage Ceph components in phases rather than all at once. You can use the ceph orch upgrade options to limit which daemons are upgraded with a single upgrade command.Monitoring and managing upgradeYou can monitor and manage the upgrade of the storage cluster, during the upgrade process.