<div>
What version of ESXi ?<br />
<br />
Can you connect ?<br />
<br />
if you use ping at the same time, does it drop any ping packets ?
</div>


What version of ESXi ?

Can you connect ?

if you use ping at the same time, does it drop any ping packets ?

<div>
Check if you have configured Shell time out in the host,<br />
<br />
that can be checked in the Configuration ==&gt; Software==&gt; Advance settings ==&gt; under userVars<br />
<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/09_w36/870597/Shelltimeout.jpg" target="_blank" title="Shelltimeout (173 KB)"><img alt="Shelltimeout" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/09_w36/800_870597/Shelltimeout.jpg" /></a>
</div>


Check if you have configured Shell time out in the host,

that can be checked in the Configuration ==> Software==> Advance settings ==> under userVars

Shelltimeouthttps://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/09_w36/870597/Shelltimeout.jpg

Shelltimeout.jpg

<div>
andrew and haresh ... im using vmware workstation ( but i'll try esxi too)<br />
<br />
bluedan... ill try that
</div>


andrew and haresh ... im using vmware workstation ( but i'll try esxi too)

bluedan... ill try that

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Putty disconnects session in VMWare after a period of time
</div>
</div>


Putty disconnects session in VMWare after a period of time

VMWare and Putty

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.