[alsysadmin]

I was a VMware admin primarily for years in engineering shops and everywhere I worked constantly had issues with resource allocation, which team had the most resources deployed, who had the most idle vCPU and memory running...

At one company pretty much my sole job for 2 days a week was to look over utilization by team, shutdown idle VM's and check for any that were provisioned with too many resources. I'd have to e-mail the team, power them down and resize the resources and boot it back up, etc.

I automated all that with scripts, from the team e-mails with a nice HTML table report of the pending changes to actually running the operations to resize and power off the machines. I was pretty proud of all that work.