Upgrading to the 9.7.1 virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA

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.

Before you begin

You must have downloaded the .iso file for the 9.7.1 release of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.
You must have reserved at least 12 GB of RAM for the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA to work optimally after the upgrade.
You must clean the vSphere Client browser cache.
Cleaning the vSphere cached downloaded plug-in packages

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.

Procedure

Mount the downloaded .iso file to the virtual appliance:
1. Click Edit Settings > DVD/CD-ROM Drive.
2. Select Datastore ISO file from the drop-down list.
3. Browse to and select the downloaded .iso file, and then select the Connect at power on checkbox.
Access the Summary tab of your deployed virtual appliance.
Click to start the maintenance console.
At the Main Menu prompt, enter option 2 for System Configuration, and then enter option 8 for Upgrade.
After the upgrade finishes, the virtual appliance restarts. The virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA is registered to the vCenter Server with the same IP address as before the upgrade.
If you want the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA to be registered with the vCenter Server with the IPv6 address, then you must perform the following:
1. Unregister the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.
2. Register the IPv6 address of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA to vCenter Server using the Register page.
3. Regenerate VSC and VASA Provider certificates after the registration.
Important: IPv6 is supported only with vCenter Server 6.7 and later.
Log out and re-login to the vSphere Client to view the deployed virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.
1. Log out from your existing vSphere web client or vSphere Client and close the window.
2. Log in to the vSphere Client.
  It might take a few minutes for the plug-in to be updated in the vSphere Client.