Recommendations page in the Azure Virtual Machines view

The Recommendations page in the Azure Virtual Machines view displays a set of recommended actions that can help you resolve capacity related problems in your Azure environment.

To access the page, in the navigation pane of Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard, click Capacity > Views > Cloud > Azure > Azure Virtual Machines. The Virtual Machines page is displayed. Click the Recommendations tab.

Based on the type of problem in the infrastructure, a recommendation type is defined. For more information about all the recommendation types, and the configurable parameters and thresholds that are used to generate them, see Using-recommendations-to-resolve-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues.

To view a summary of recommendations for all virtual machines

The Recommendations table displays detailed recommendation information for all the Azure virtual machines. The following table describes each column in detail.

To find a specific system

Use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific system. For more information, see Sorting-a-table-in-the-Helix-Capacity-Optimization-Dashboard and Using-filtering-options-in-the-Helix-Capacity-Optimization-Dashboard.

Additionally, you can use the following filtering options on this page.

To review recommendations details

To view the recommendation details, for a VM, click the corresponding Efficiency icon (For example. ).
The Recommendations window opens that provides the exact findings along with the recommended actions that you can take to manage the VM.

The following table explains the different fields that you see in the Recommendations window.

Field	Description
System	Name of the virtual machine
Optimizer findings	Brief description of the issue
Type	Recommendation type. It is one of the configuration parameters in the optimizer rule that generates this recommendation
Severity/Efficiency	Efficiency level of the recommendation that is based on the estimated savings per month that you can achieve by implementing the recommended action
Generated on	Date of the last run of the associated optimizer rule
Optimizer rule	Name of the associated optimizer rule
Recommended actions	Suggested actions that you can implement to optimize your costs
Accuracy indicator	Displayed only for overallocated VM. Indicates the level of accuracy or reliability of the resizing recommendation. For more information about how the recommendation is generated, see Overallocated-VM-recommendation. You can click the icon to view its description. The icon can have one of the following values: Value - Accuracy level - Medium - High - Very High For more information about each accuracy level, see Troubleshooting-resizing-recommendations-for-overallocated-VMs.