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Overview

This document provides the technical guidance required to deploy and use the Parallels RAS Custom Provider Framework. It consolidates the design, feature definitions, implementation guidance, and sample scripts into a single reference to help organizationso start using the Custom Provider Framework.

Parallels RAS Custom Provider is a framework that allows organizations to integrate hypervisors not currently supported as built-in Tier 1 providers in RAS. Using a script-based connector that acts as middleware, organizations can do the following:

• Onboard a custom provider.

• Enumerate virtual machines.

• Retrieve guest information.

• Perform supported power operations.

• Promote VMs to a RAS Template.

• Clone VMs.

• Perform Template versioning through Parallels RAS.

Custom Provider lets organizations integrate any hypervisor or cloud platform with Parallels RAS by supplying a script or executable that implements the Parallels RAS connector interface.

Support

Parallels supports the Custom Provider framework and its integration with RAS. Hypervisor-specific scripts, provider-side logic, and any required third-party dependencies are customer-owned unless explicitly agreed otherwise. Sample scripts are provided as examples and accelerators, not as a Parallels-certified compatibility badge.