1. A method, comprising: identifying an instance of a virtual machine to evict; determining, within a predetermined range of probabilities, that processing on the identified instance of the virtual machine will resume within a predetermined range of time; flagging, for reallocation, an allotment of RAM, on which the identified instance of the virtual machine was being processed; and softly evicting the identified instance of the virtual machine, including: allocating processing resources away from the identified instance of the virtual machine by: placing the flagged allotment of RAM in a removable state, evicting a portion of the flagged allotment of RAM to page-boundary matched compressed local storage, and preserving a non-evicted portion of the flagged allotment of RAM for the identified instance of the virtual machine; receiving an instruction to resume the processing on the identified instance of the virtual machine, and restoring the processing on the identified instance of the virtual machine.