Idle virtual machines are exactly as the name suggests; how many virtual machines in your environment that are idle. How is a virtual machine considered idle? The idle calculation is directly related to the threshold settings that are set in policy for virtual machines under Reclaimable Capacity. Idle virtual machines are virtual machines with a compute usage less than the configured threshold. The settings that you would change are shown as follows.
By default, a virtual machine must spend 90% of its time consuming less than:
- 100 MHz CPU
- 20 I/O Operations of Disk I/O
- 1 KBps of Network I/O (Both VM and Host)
As per the preceding diagram, the Time interval (T) is the same value as used for Stress and other non-trended analytics. ...
