Estimated downtime displayed during vCenter patching shows an abnormally high value.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

The estimated downtime displayed when applying the vCenter patch from VAMI shows an abnormally high value.

This issue might occur when the target vCenter version is less than 8.0U1.

Cause

There was an error in the logic when calculating estimated downtime.

Resolution

This issue was fixed in vCenter 8.0U1 and later.