Hi Edward,

I'm operating a fairly similar setup. I have done a similar migration
to what you described on a 19.x cluster: Migrated all hosts from an old
HPE generation to a newer one. I added one of the new hosts to the
cluster, migrated a mon, mgr, mds, rgw and osds, propagated the new IPs
to firewalls and clients and eventually removed the old host. I
repeated that for the remaining hosts. Due to a lack of rack space I
had to do this host by host.

The VMs and cephfs mounts did not experience issues during the
migration (both Debian and RHEL machines).

~ Phillip

On Wed, 2026-07-08 at 13:58 +0000, Edward R Huyer via ceph-users wrote:
> I have a fairly run-of-the-mill cephadm managed/containerized 20.2.1
> cluster.  Not hyperconverged or anything like that.  It's currently
> exporting RBD to a Proxmox VE 8.4 cluster (QEMU virtualization), and
> CephFS to a couple RHEL 8.x servers via kernel mounts.
> 
> I need to migrate the whole thing, including the monitors, to new
> hardware.  My question is, can I rely on the QEMU processes and
> kernel mounts to correctly update their internal monitor maps as I
> add new monitors and remove old monitors, or will I suddenly reach a
> point where the consumers can't find the monitors they started up
> with and lose their minds?  (I know I'll also need to update the
> static configs.)
> 
> I'm pretty sure it should Just Work so long as I don't do something
> dumb and lose quorum, but there's a big difference between "should"
> and "actually does", and I haven't been able to find any writeups of
> people actually doing it, so I'm asking here.  Is this likely to
> work?  Is this known to not work for some reason (e.g., the kernel
> mounts or QEMU processes never actually update their mon maps after
> startup)?
> 
> TIA!
> 
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