Nerdio Advisor: Rules

Nerdio Manager provides a feature that analyzes your resources based on rules you create and generates recommendations. For example, Nerdio Manager can analyze a personal host pool, and based on host pool usage data, provide recommendations for properly sizing the personal host pool. In addition, you may apply the recommendation to the associated host pools. Different analyzers can be used for different assessment criteria.

Create a New Rule

Nerdio Manager allows you to create rules to be used for recommendations. Rules define how an analyzer should assess resource usage, and what triggers should be used to initiate a recommendation.

To create a new rule:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Rules.

2. Select Add rule.

3. Enter the following information:

   • Toggle the rule On or Off as desired.

   • Name: Type the rule name.

   • Description: Type the rule's description.

   • Host Pools: From the drop-down list, select the host pool(s) to apply the rule to.

   • Analyzers: From the drop-down list, select the analyzers to include in this rule.

   • For Auto-Scale Optimizer Settings: 

     • Name: Type the name of the rule set.

     • Work Days: From the drop-down list, select the work days.

     • Working Hours: From the drop-down lists, select the working hours.

   • For VM Right Sizing for personal hosts Settings and :VM Right Sizing for pooled host pools Settings:

     • Name: Type the name of the rule set.

     • Respect Quota: Select this option to only recommend VM sizes when sufficient quota exists.

     • VM Sizes: From the drop-down list, select the VM sizes the advisor can only recommend, with respect to other restrictions such as subscription, region, compatibility etc.

     • CPU Increase Trigger: Type the average CPU utilization above which a recommendation is generated to increase the VM size.

     • CPU Decrease Trigger: Type the average CPU utilization below which a recommendation is generated to decrease the VM size.

     • RAM Increase Trigger: Type the average RAM utilization above which a recommendation is generated to increase the VM size.

     • RAM Decrease Trigger: Type the average RAM utilization below which a recommendation is generated to decrease the VM size.

     • Active Sessions Only: Select this option to include data from active sessions only.

       Note: Unselect this option if you wish to base recommendations on global VM resource usage, both with and without active sessions.

4. Once you have entered the desired information, select OK.

Manage Existing Rules

Nerdio Manager allows you to change, delete, disable, and clone existing rules. In addition, you may force an existing rule to be executed.

To manage an existing rule:

1. Navigate to Advisor > Rules.

2. Locate the rule you wish to work with.

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

   • Edit: Change an existing rule.

   • Delete: Delete an existing rule.

   • Disable: Disable an existing rule.

   • Clone: Clone an existing rule.

   • Force: Force an existing rule to be executed.