Patent ID: 11899554
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program code for detecting usage patterns in virtual machines that, when executed by at least one computing device, directs the at least one computing device to at least:
collect a plurality of utilization metrics from a virtual machine;
determine a plurality of clusters to be used for organizing the plurality of utilization metrics into groups;
assign individual utilization metrics from among the plurality of utilization metrics to individual ones of the plurality of clusters;
compute a percentage of utilization metrics assigned to at least one of the plurality of clusters, wherein the percentage is computed as compared to a total number of utilization metrics assigned to all of the plurality of clusters; and
determine that the virtual machine is a utilized virtual machine based on the percentage of utilization metrics.