The Reclaimable Capacity badge

The Reclaimable Capacity badge is a graphical representation of the amount of unused compute resources currently assigned to your virtual machines.

In vSphere, Reclaimable Capacity is only applied to virtual machines, as it is seen that VMs are fairly straightforward to right-size as requirements change in the environment. The same could not be said for hosts, for example, as adding or removing resources from physical hosts based on demand would not be seen as a common task.

Although Reclaimable Capacity only applies to virtual machines, objects such as Clusters, Hosts, Datastores, and other containers still have a badge (and associated score) due to the relationship of children VMs.

Reclaimable capacity has ...

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