"vCenter Server Setting" > "Timeout settings" in vSphere Client disappeared after upgrade to vCenter 8.0u2 or later.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading vCenter to 8.0 u2 or later, "vCenter Server Setting" > "Timeout settings" has been disappeared.

vCenter 7.0

vCenter 8.0 u3

Environment

VMware vCenter Server

Cause

This "Timeout settings" in vSphere client assumes to be used as a session timeout value for legacy vSphere client (known as C# client which discontinued at vSphere 6.5) not for current vSphere client.  So this configuration settings has been removed on vCenter server 8.0 u2 or later.

Resolution

This is expected.

This "Timeout settings" is just for legacy vSphere client (C# client) which had been already discontinued from vSphere 6.5.

For configuring session timeout settings in current vSphere client is described official documentation below,

• (For 7.x) Configure the vSphere Client Timeout Value
• (For 8.x) How to Configure Your vSphere Client Timeout Value
• (For 9.x) How to Configure Your vSphere Client Timeout Value