Wasted VM analyzes disk space?

Can someone explain the query to the following analysis:

"For each data store, virtual machines have wasted disk space?

It shows the value '0' in the ' waste | Disk space | "Total" column  I know we have a ton of VM out there that is attributed to the way too space-wise. We are trying to identify that VM would be good candidates for a provisioning and reclamation.

Thank you!

Dennis

VCOPS determines the waste of disk space by looking at the virtual machines that have slowed down or turned off for long periods of time. Is this the case in your configuration? Otherwise, you will not see a value of waste of disk space.

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