Recommendations dashboard

The Nerdio Advisor Recommendations Dashboard allows you to review the right-sizing recommendations across your desktop estate.

View Nerdio Advisor recommendations dashboard overview

Nerdio Manager allows you to view the recommendations dashboard for the selected rules.

To view a recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

   

2. You can filter the recommendations as follows:

   • Filter by Rule: From the drop-down list, select the rule.

   • Filter by Status: From the drop-down list, select the status.

   • Filter by Scope: From the drop-down list, select the scope to filter the results to include specific host pools only.

3. Review the recommendations.

4. From the action menu, select one of the following options:

   • Apply: Apply the recommendation to the resource. See Apply Advisor recommendations below for details.

   • Hide for 7 days: Hide the recommendation for 7 days.

   • Hide forever: Hide the recommendation forever.

Apply Advisor recommendations

Nerdio Manager allows you to apply recommendations to resources.

To apply advisor recommendations to resources:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. Locate the recommendation you wish to work with.

3. From the action menu, select Apply.

4. Enter the following information.

   • Run now or Schedule: Optionally, navigate to the Schedule tab to perform the task during selected time frame(s). Otherwise, the task starts as soon as you select OK. See Manage Schedules for Tasks for details about creating a schedule.

   • Messaging: Toggle on the Messaging to send messages to active users.

     • Delay: From the drop-down list, select the number of minutes to wait after sending the message before starting the process.

     • Message: Type the message you want to send to the users.

5. Once you have entered the desired information, select Run now (not scheduled) or Save & close (scheduled).

Bulk actions on recommendations

Nerdio Manager allows you to perform bulk actions on recommendations.

To perform bulk actions on recommendations:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. Select the various recommendations you wish to perform a bulk action on.

3. From the Bulk apply menu, select the bulk action you wish to perform. For example:

   

Example recommendation dashboards

In this section a number of example recommendation dashboards are highlighted, based on using the core rules analyzers.

Licensing suitability (Cloud PC Enterprise & Frontline

This dashboard displays recommendations based reviewing license recommendations for your currently deployed Windows 365 desktops, including consolidation options from Windows 365 Enterprise to Frontline.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the licnese suitability (Cloud PC Enterprise & Frontline) analyzer.

Platform TCO (AVD personal)

This dashboard displays recommendations based on using a platform TCO (AVD personal) rule.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the platform TCO (AVD personal) analyzer.

   

3. Select Details to show more detail about a specific desktop

   

Platform TCO (Cloud PC Enterprise)

This dashboard displays recommendations based on using a platform TCO (Cloud PC Enterprise) rule.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the platform TCO (Cloud PC Enterprise) analyzer.

   

3. Select Details to show more detail about a specific desktop

Right-sizing (AVD personal)

This dashboard displays recommendations based on using a right-sizing (AVD personal) rule.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the right-sizing (AVD personal) analyzer.

   

Right-sizing (AVD pooled)

This dashboard displays recommendations based on using a right-sizing (AVD pooled) rule.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the right-sizing (AVD pooled) analyzer.

   

Right-sizing (Cloud PC)

This dashboard displays recommendations based on using a right-sizing (Cloud PC) rule.

To view the recommendations dashboard:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Recommendations.

2. From the Filter by rule box, from the drop-down list, select a rule that uses the right-sizing (Cloud PC) analyzer.

   

3. Select Details to show more detail about a specific desktop.