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

Claim 7:
8. A method for detecting usage patterns in virtual machines, comprising:
collecting, by at least one computing device, a plurality of utilization metrics from a virtual machine;
determining, by the at least one computing device, a plurality of clusters to be used for organizing the plurality of utilization metrics into groups;
assigning, by the at least one computing device, individual utilization metrics from among the plurality of utilization metrics to individual ones of the plurality of clusters;
computing, by the at least one computing device, 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
determining, by the at least one computing device, that the virtual machine is a utilized virtual machine based on the percentage of utilization metrics.