Dell Products Inc.

Andrew Veitch

Amy N Seibel

Seth Jacob Rothschild

Rana Afifi

Approximating energy use of software executing on virtual machines is presented herein. A system determines a pair of energy consumption baselines of a host computing device representing respective energy being utilized by the host computing device; determines, at a sampling time within a job execution period during which a job has been executing on a virtual machine (VM) of the host computing device, an energy consumption of the host computing device; and based on the pair of energy consumption baselines and the energy consumption of the host computing device, and further based on respective estimated portions of processing resources of a central processing unit of the host computing device being utilized, at the sampling time, by the VM and by the job within the VM, determines an approximate amount of energy use of the job that has executed on the VM.

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Weston, MA, United States of America

Andrew Veitch