Old Sessions

[esnmb]

Anyone else see really old sessions in the vSphere client?  There are so many connections, even my own not too mention other admins' connections...  I have some in there over 30 days old.  Does vCenter just not clean up sessions properly?

I'm running 5.0 Update 2.

[Troy_Clavell]

what do you mean by old sessions? Idle sessions need to be manually dropped if you want those connections released.  There have been times when user/service account logs off vCenter and that session doesn't clear, but for the most part the sessions clear themselves when the session closed by the user/service account.

[esnmb]

Right, idle sessions.  So vCenter doesn't disconnect them after a certain amount of time?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

no.. vCenter will not drop idle sessions on it's own.  You can use scripts to do this, but nothing built in to vCenter itself that drops these connections.

[esnmb]

I see.  Thank you.