vCenter patching or upgrading precheck warning about various extensions/plugins

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• The following precheck warning appears while upgrading/updating vCenter from 8.0.3 00500 (build 24674346) to 8.0.3 00600 (build 24853646)
• Current vSphere replication server version: 9.0.2.24168908 and SRM is  9.0.2.24170200.
  
  
  
  

Environment

vSphere vCenter 7.x
vSphere vCenter 8.x

Cause

The vCenter upgrade precheck warning related to the plug-in "com.vmware.vrUi-9.0.2.24170200" is caused by a compatibility issue with the vSphere Replication plug-in.

Resolution

Validate the version of vSphere Replication and SRM using Interoperability, if its compatible with vCenter version, warning can be safely ignored and proceed with an upgrade