Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 11.4
For our Zabbix 7 installation, we are going to need MariaDB 10.5 or a newer supported version, so, it is a good idea to keep your database version up to date. MariaDB regularly makes improvements to how it handles certain aspects of performance.
This recipe details how to upgrade MariaDB to the latest stable LTS version, which is MariaDB 11.4 at the time of writing.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will need our server which we called lar-book-zbx6
. At this point, the server is running a RHEL8-based distribution.
Another option is to have a server running a Debian-based distribution such as Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, or a newer version of those Linux distributions. We will be upgrading the MariaDB instance on this server to version 11.4.
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