tencent cloud

Overview

CentOS has officially discontinued support for CentOS 8 since January 1, 2022, and plans to discontinue support for CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024.

If you need to purchase a new CVM instance, you are advised to use a TencentOS Server image. If you are using a CentOS instance, replace it with TencentOS Server by referring to the directions provided in this document.

Version Suggestions

• If you are using CentOS 7 series, migrate it to TencentOS Server 2.4 (TK4).
• If you are using CentOS 8 series, migrate it to TencentOS Server 3.1 (TK4).

Notes

• OS migration is not supported in the following cases:
• A GUI is installed.
• An i686 RPM package is stalled.
• Business may fail to run properly after migration under the following conditions:
• The business program is installed with and relies on a third-party RPM package.
• The business program relies on a fixed kernel version or has its own kernel module compiled.
  The target version after migration is TK14 based on the v5.4 kernel. This version is later than the kernel versions of CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 and may have changes in some old features.
• The business program relies on a fixed GCC version.
  Currently, TencentOS 2.4 is installed with GCC v4.8.5 by default, and TencentOS 3.1 is installed with GCC v8.5 by default.
• After migration, restart is required to enter the TencentOS kernel.
• Migration does not affect data disks. Upgrade only in the OS layer does not involve any operation on data disks.

Resource Requirements

• The memory has a free space of over 500 MB.
• The system disk has a free space of over 10 GB.

Directions

Data backup

Migration is irreversible. To ensure business data security, you are advised to create a snapshot to back up system disk data.

Migration execution