I can provide you this documentation about vartical-align.
You should understand, that you need some elements, like a picture, for to see some difference. Or you wanna get smthing another? Draw your expected output.
Also read this answer
My working example needs white page, because it was also not working as your page. The problem is in predefined project stuff. Find yours which doesn't allows you use this solution
<body>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Gn5384xqQ1aoWXA+058RXPxPg6fy4IWvTNh0E263XmFcJlSAwiGgFAW/dAiS6JXm" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-KJ3o2DKtIkvYIK3UENzmM7KCkRr/rE9/Qpg6aAZGJwFDMVNA/GpGFF93hXpG5KkN" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-ApNbgh9B+Y1QKtv3Rn7W3mgPxhU9K/ScQsAP7hUibX39j7fakFPskvXusvfa0b4Q" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JZR6Spejh4U02d8jOt6vLEHfe/JQGiRRSQQxSfFWpi1MquVdAyjUar5+76PVCmYl" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<div class="container h-100">
    <div class="row align-items-center h-100">
        <div class="col-6 mx-auto">
            <div class="jumbotron text-center">
                <h1 class="display-4">Jumbotron</h1>
                <p class="lead">This is a simple centered hero unit.</p>
                <p class="lead">
                    <a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="#" role="button">Learn more</a>
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<style>
body,html {
  height: 100%;
}  
</style>
</body>