Patent ID: 9658894
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for reclaiming resources during virtual machine decommission, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, information regarding resource utilization of a virtual machine (VM); determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the resource utilization of the VM is less than a first predetermined threshold; determining, by one or more computer processors, whether a cluster utilization of the VM is greater than a second predetermined threshold; determining, by one or more computer processors, whether a timer is active; in response to determining that the timer is active, determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the timer has expired; in response to determining that the timer has expired, determining, by one or more computer processors, at what time a dynamic decommission of the VM may occur, based, at least in part, on a VM resource utilization information finding; and in response to the determined time the dynamic decommission of the VM can occur, triggering, by one or more computer processors, a dynamic decommission of the VM.