Complete Cost of Azure Infrastructure and Software Licensing

Best-Practices Recommendations on RIs, AHB

• Nerdio’s cost estimator will detect intended usage patterns and recommend the number of Reserved Instances (RIs) to maximize Azure compute savings
• Cost estimator recommends Windows Server OS costs with and without Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) and provides costs under both scenarios 

Per-User Azure CostReporting

• Estimate Azure compute and storage costs before deploying a WVD host pool and VMs directly on the host pool creation page
• Easy auto-scale visualizations help understand auto-scale behavior and its impact on costs and savings
• Monitor Azure compute and storage costs and savings on a per host pool and per user level 

Easy, Wizard-Driven Cost Estimates

• Nerdio’s Cost Estimator makes pricing Azure virtual desktop deployment quick, easy, and error-free
• Select your use-case, number of users, Microsoft 365 licensing, and usage profile and get a precise cost breakdown of all cost components in an easy-to-quote per-user-per-month format 

Overlay on Top of Existing Deployments

• Seamlessly integrate with existing Azure environments without the need to provision any new resources and make any changes to the existing deployment
• Connect to an Azure landing zone with Active Directory only, an Azure IaaS deployment with AD and file services, or a complete existing WVD environment in under 10 minutes 

Best-Practices Configuration

Wizard-based configuration with tips along the way to set up a best-practices WVD configuration and avoid performance issues 

Greenfield Deployments

Deploy a complete new environment in an empty Azure subscription with new networking, Azure AD DS identity, and Azure Files shares in an hour 

1-Hour Customer Deployment

• Complete greenfield deployment with Azure AD DS, Azure Files and new networking take an hour, while connecting to an existing WVD deployment takes less than 10 minutes 

Alerting and Notification

Receive email alerts and notifications on status of any events 

Desktops, Servers, Backup and Networking

• Create and manage WVD desktops and host pools
• Create and manage server VMs 
• Back up desktop images, session hosts and server VMs
• Manage networking, firewall rules, VPN, and vNet peering 

RBAC with End-User Portal

• Role-based access controls allow different admin teams to be granted access to the Nerdio Manager console for “least privilege” administration on a defined scope.
• Desktop users can be granted access to Nerdio Manager to control their own pooled desktop sessions (e.g. log off), power on, restart and power off their personal desktops. 

Performance and Utilization Monitoring

• Collects data from WVD service and inside of each VM every minute. Data is collected in Azure Log Analytics and can be retained for a configurable amount of time.
•  Actionable dashboards show users, hosts, and applications utilization and performance
• Alerting via Azure Monitor can be triggered on any combination of logged events 

MSIX AppAttach

• Automatically create MSIX AppAttach VHDX packages from MSIX installer files
• Link Azure Files shares, automatically upload MSIX packages, and assign them to users
• Add MSIX AppAttach applications to host pools and deliver applications to users without the need to install them on the image 

Users and Sessions

• View all users in a Workspace who are currently active or disconnected
• Shadow and remotely control user sessions to provide secure support 

Image Creation and Management

• Create images from Azure marketplace, shared image gallery, existing session host VM, or a custom image
• Automatically update and package images on a schedule
• Schedule automated image deployments to host pools on a recurring basis without any admin intervention 

3-Click Complete UI

Manage all aspect of the WVD environment from a single user interface with an easy-to-use UX. Most actions can be accomplished in 3 clicks or less. Everything from FSLogix to auto-scaling, storage and MSIX AppAttach, user sessions and performance, and everything in between. 

Performance Optimization

• Leverage auto-scale visualization to understand user behavior and impact on costs to better match infrastructure size to user demand
• Azure monitor in-depth dashboards show performance and utilization of user sessions, session hosts and applications 

Auto-Heal

Detect “broken” session hosts and repair them by restarting and/or rebuilding the VM to get it back to a functional state

Up to 75% Savings

• Well-tuned auto-scaling can reduce Azure infrastructure costs up to 75% by shutting down compute or completely removing both compute and storage when not in use
• Estimate Azure compute and storage costs before deploying a new host pool
• Monitor auto-scale costs and savings at customer, host pool and per-user level 

Auto-Scale

• Nerdio Manager automatically matches size of infrastructure to real-time user demand with multiple powerful, but easy-to-use auto-scale algorithms. Auto-scaling performs both VM power management and provisions/deletes resources on demand.
• Single-user, non-persistent VDI auto-scaling provides each user with their own desktop without permanently assigning a dedicated VM
• Personal, persistent desktops can be powered on when users start their work and powered off automatically when they are done for the day
• Control aggressiveness of auto-scaling to balance cost savings with end-user experience
• Comprehensive auto-scale visualizations to understand and optimize system behavior