vmware hardware version

Hello guys

Regarding this KB

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K69120675

Let say I have F5 vm running version 13.0 and VMware HW version 9 , and need to upgrade to version 13.1

What should be done first ?

Upgrade to 13.1 and then upgrade the HW version to 10 ?

Or first upgrade HW version to 10 then upgrade the f5 to 13.1 ?

Or it doesn't matter ?

Thanks