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

Claim 14:
15. A system for detecting usage patterns in virtual machines, comprising:
a memory device configured to store computer-readable instructions thereon; and
at least one computing device configured, through execution of the computer-readable instructions, 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.