Nerdio Manager Community Edition

The Nerdio Manager Community Edition (CE) is part of our Nerdio Tech Insider community program and was officially launched on October 21st, 2020. Below we highlight important differences between the Community Edition and the paid edition of Nerdio Manager.

NME-CE is available through the Azure marketplace, just like the paid version. In fact, you select and install the regular version of Nerdio Manager to start with. Once installed you have three options. By clicking on the highlighted banner at the top of Nerdio Manager, you can choose to:

• Keep using it in trial mode: For proof-of-concept and production purposes.

• Upgrade to a paid version: For production workloads.

• Move to Community Edition: For private Azure lab purposes only.

Send the support team an email (nme.support@getnerdio.com) with your Install ID and they will assign the Community Edition license. You can find your Install ID under Updates > Nerdio Manager Software Updates.

You will install NME-CE in your own private Azure lab; you are not allowed to use NME-CE in a company lab environment – not for testing, evaluating, production, etc. If you need that utilization, use Trial mode.

Once you have selected to use Nerdio Manager Community Edition It will continue to work until you uninstall or deactivate it.

A few things to note about the community edition:

• The total number end-users is limited to 25 (this is a monitored metric). For private lab purposes, this should be more than sufficient.

• You will be able to use the full feature set of Nerdio Manager in the Community Edition.

• We are not limiting the type and number of machines/CPU’s to be used with NME-CE, so you can go all out.

Nerdio does not charge for NME-CE licenses. That being said, keep an eye on your Azure costs. While we offer NME-CE free of charge, you will still need to pay for the underlying resources being consumed by NME-CE. For example, think about the virtual machines part of your AVD deployment.

Like the paid version, NME-CE is built on the same Azure native Platform-as-a-Service services. This means costs will apply here as well. However, by scaling down the underlying App Service plan and the SQL database, costs can be kept to a minimum.

Another example would be if you run NME-CE within a MSDN account the number of end-users will be more than enough to get you through the month.

See Nerdio Manager Default Deployment Resources and Costs to help you get started.

NME-CE Support

Since this is a Community effort, our normal support channels do not apply. We do offer best effort support as part of the Nerdio Tech Insider program Slack channel. Share insights and use cases, ask and answer questions, collaborate, learn from each other, and more.

Some useful links:

• Program Announcements

• Nerdio Tech Insider Community Program Meetup: Join and never miss an upcoming event.