In-place upgrade or rolling upgrade to MobileFirst Server V7.1.0

You can replace the previous version by the new one or you can install the new version alongside the previous one.

In-place upgrade

An upgrade by which the old version of Worklight Server or MobileFirst Server is no longer installed after the new version of MobileFirst Server is installed.

In-place upgrades require some downtime of the service.

Rolling upgrade

An upgrade that installs the new version of MobileFirst Server such that it runs side-by-side with the old version of Worklight Server or MobileFirst Server in the same application server or in a different application server.

The procedure for a rolling upgrade to apply a fix pack to IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation V7.1.0 is documented in Rolling upgrade procedure to apply a fix pack to IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V7.1.0 in stateful mode.

Read from the following tables whether this step is required for your upgrade path and what the system status is afterward if both Application Center and MobileFirst Server are on the same application.