Systems and methods for selecting a target host for migration of a virtual machine

An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a cluster including a plurality of host devices. The plurality of host devices include a first host device. The cluster further includes a cluster controller that receives indication of a contention on the first host device. The cluster controller selects a plurality of candidate host devices among the plurality of host devices based on a plurality of host CPU usages of the plurality of candidate host devices. The cluster controller computes a plurality of projected CPU usages of the plurality of candidate host devices. The cluster controller selects a target host device among the plurality of candidate host devices based on the plurality of projected CPU usages of the plurality of candidate host devices.