Best Practices for Resources

To help manage your costs, Ansys recommends the following best practices for resources:

• Stop resources when they are not in use

  Stopped resources incur costs at a much lower rate, typically only for the attached storage.

• Delete resources that will not be used again

• Use shutdown timers

  • Enable and set shutdown timers for virtual desktops and HPC clusters. A shutdown timer automatically stops a resource after a set period of inactivity or low usage. If timers are not set, a running resource will remain in the Running state even if it is not being used (until someone stops it).

  • The timer trigger is configurable. For example, it can be defined by CPU usage, or by a count of signed-in users.

  • For more information, see Setting Shutdown Timers for a Virtual Desktop and Setting a Shutdown Timer for an HPC Cluster in the Administration Guide.

• Use resource tags

  • Recommended: Create a resource tag such as 'managedBy' to identify the person who is responsible for a resource.

  • Resource creators much specify a value for the tag when creating a resource.

  • For more information, see Tags in the Administration Guide.