You can perform an in-place upgrade to the 9.7.1 release of the virtual
appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) from your existing 9.x setup following the instructions provided here.
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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: You can perform an in-place
upgrade to the 9.7.1 release of the virtual appliance only from your existing
9.x version of virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA. 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.