公开(公告)号：US11188439B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US15952824

申请日：2018-04-13

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Aditya Gopisetti ,  Chandrashekhar Jha ,  Jobin Raju George ,  Kumar Gaurav ,  Jusvinder Singh

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F11/34 ,  G06F11/30

Abstract: The detection of idle virtual machines through usage pattern analysis is described. In one example, a computing device can collect utilization metrics from a virtual machine over time. The utilization metrics can be related to one or more processing usage, disk usage, network usage, and memory usage metrics, among others. The utilization metrics can be separated into a set of training metrics and a set of validation metrics, and a number of clusters can be determined based on the set of training metrics. The clusters can be used to organize the set of validation metrics into groups. Depending upon the number or overall percentage of the utilization metrics assigned to individual ones of the plurality of clusters, it is possible to determine whether or not the virtual machine is an idle virtual machine. Once identified, idle virtual machines can be shut down to conserve processing resources and costs.