Our team in is the same boat, we have to move our cluster off of RHEL7 to RHEL8. We also have to use the same IP addresses of the current peers to "mimic" the old instance to the new instance. Since we have a multi-site cluster, we are going to take a peer from site1 down using splunk offline, then rsync the entire /opt/splunk dir to the new VM, ensure all network settings match and rejoin it to the cluster. Rinse and Repeat.. From the splunk docs, I'm confused on which step needs to happen first.  @Glasses2 Which step did you perform first, did you install splunk rpm package on the new server? Or did you rsync the old instance to the new server first and then install splunk? -siemless ... View more