You can perform a direct upgrade to the 9.7.1 release of the virtual
appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA from your existing 9.7 setup following the
instructions provided here.
About this task
The status of VASA Provider from the existing deployment is retained
after the upgrade. You should manually enable or disable VASA Provider based on your
requirement after you upgrade. However, it is best to enable VASA Provider
even if VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) are not in use, as it enables storage
capability profiles for traditional datastore provisioning, and storage alarms.
Note: A direct upgrade from any release
prior to 9.7 to 9.7P2 or later is not supported by the virtual appliance for
VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.You should first upgrade your existing setup to the
9.7 release of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA before
upgrading to any later release. When you upgrade to 9.7.1 release of virtual
appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA and you want to use vVols replication,
then you will need to setup one more vCenter Server with virtual appliance with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) installed.