Nerdio Manager for MSPs is a multi-tenant Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) deployment, management, and optimization platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that empowers them to build successful AVD practices.
With the Azure managed application, MSPs can automatically provision a complete AVD environment in under an hour, connect to an existing deployment in minutes, manage all your clients in a single pane of glass admin portal, and optimize their AVD environment with powerful autoscaling.
Nerdio Manager for MSPs offers a wide range of features and benefits across pricing, deployment, management, and optimization.
Pricing
- Significant Savings Achievable: Nerdio Manager for MSP can be connected to any existing AVD deployment and delivers savings of up to 75% on Azure compute and storage costs.
- Complete Cost of Azure Infrastructure and Software Licensing: Obtain a complete cost picture of an AVD environment inclusive of Azure infrastructure, Microsoft 365 licensing, add-on licenses (like SQL server), bandwidth, VPN and other related recurring and upfront costs.
- Best-Practices Recommendations on RIs, AHB: The Nerdio cost estimator will detect intended usage patterns and recommend the number of Reserved Instances (RIs) to maximize Azure compute savings.
- Per-User Azure Cost Reporting: Estimate Azure compute and storage costs before deploying a AVD host pool and VMs directly on the host pool creation page.
- Easy, Wizard-Driven Cost Estimates: The Nerdio 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.
Deployment
- 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. You can connect to an Azure landing zone with Active Directory only, an Azure IaaS deployment with AD and file services, or a complete existing AVD environment in under 10 minutes.
- Best-Practices Configuration: Wizard-based configuration with tips along the way to set up a best-practices AVD 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 AVD deployment takes less than 10 minutes.
Management
- Alerting and Notification: Receive email alerts and notifications on status of any events.
- Desktops, Servers, Backup and Networking: Create and manage AVD desktops and host pools and create and manage server VMs. Manage networking, firewall rules, VPN, and vNet peering, and also back up desktop images, session hosts and server VMs.
- 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 AVD 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.
- 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.
- Users and Sessions: View all users in a Workspace who are currently active or disconnected, and 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.
- 3-Click Complete UI: Manage all aspect of the AVD 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.
Optimization
- Performance Optimization: Leverage auto-scale visualization to understand user behavior and impact on costs to better match infrastructure size to user demand.
- 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
- 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.
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