Parallels RAS Reference Architecture
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  • Introduction
    • Parallels RAS release history
    • What is Parallels RAS
    • Advantages of Parallels RAS Solution
    • Parallels RAS Components
    • Understanding Deployment Scenario Diagrams
    • Parallels RAS Basic Concepts
  • Deployment Scenarios
    • General Considerations
    • Parallels RAS Deployment Scenarios
      • Single Farm with One RD Session Host
      • Single Farm with Two RD Session Hosts
      • Single Farm with RD Session Host Auto Scaling
      • Single Farm with VDI Hosts
      • Single Farm with Remote PC Hosts
      • Single Farm with Mixed Hosts
      • Single Farm with Public & Private RAS Secure Gateways
      • Single Farm with Dual RAS Secure Gateways
      • High Availability with Multiple Gateways
      • High Availability with Single-hop or Double-hop DMZ
        • Single-hop DMZ (two firewalls)
        • Double-hop DMZ (three firewalls)
      • RAS on Microsoft Azure
      • Azure Virtual Desktop integration
      • Mixed Scenarios
        • Multi-Site Scenario
        • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
        • Secure Setup with Double-hop DMZ and Second-Level Authentication
        • SAML SSO authentication
      • Multi-Tenant Architecture
      • Management Portal
    • Client Manager and Desktop Replacement
  • Capacity Considerations
  • Deploying Parallels RAS Reporting
    • One Site with Multiple RD Session Hosts
    • Multiple Sites with Multiple RD Session Hosts and Remote SQL Server
  • Port Reference and SSL Certificates
    • Port reference
      • Parallels Client
      • Web browsers
      • HALB
      • RAS Secure Gateway
      • RAS Connection Broker
      • RAS Console
      • SSRS
      • RAS Reporting
      • RAS Web Administration Service (REST/Management Portal)
      • RAS PowerShell
      • RAS Provider Agent
      • RAS Enrollment Server
      • RAS RD Session Host Agent
      • RAS Guest Agent
      • RAS Remote PC Agent
      • Tenant Broker
      • Active Directory and Domain Services ports
    • SSL Certificates
      • Using a Third-Party Trusted Certificate Authority
      • Using Enterprise Certificate Authority
      • Assign a Certificate to a Gateway
      • Parallels Client Configuration
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Parallels conducted in-house Parallels RAS scalability testing using a total of two HP DL360 consisting of the following hardware components:

Component
Description

CPU

2x Xeon E5-2670 v1, 2.6GHz, 20 MB L3, 115W TDP

RAM

128 GB, 16x 8 GB Micron DDR-4-2100 at 1600MHz

HDD

Western Digital Blue 1 TB SSD

The following Parallels RAS lab environment was used:

  • A farm consists of 1 site.

  • Single hop DMZ.

  • Each Secure Gateway can host 1200 sessions in Gateway SSL mode (enumeration and proxying RDP session in SSL + User Portal).

  • Each Secure Gateway has User Portal enabled and balanced by HALB using the same port 443 (When using URL https://HALB-VIP/userportal/ the incoming connections will be distributed appropriately because SSL session persistence is in a place).

Note: To enable SSL and User Portal, a server certificate must be installed.

250 users

Parallels RAS was deployed on VMware vSphere 6.5 on Windows 2016 Server as follows:

Parallels RAS Component
Total VMs
vCPU in Each VM
RAM in Each VM

RAS Connection Broker

2

2

4 GB

RAS Secure Gateway

2

2

4 GB

High Availability Load Balancing

2

1

2 GB

RD Session Host

6

6

24 GB

  • All components doubled for redundancy.

  • RDSH N+1 for redundancy.

The above configuration has been tested with both our internal tools and Login VSI. For more details, you could read the Parallels RAS Scalability Testing with Login VSI paper, which is available at the following URL: https://download.parallels.com/ras/v18/docs/en_US/Parallels-RAS-Scalability-Testing-Login-VSI.pdf

500 users

Parallels RAS was deployed on VMware vSphere 6.5 on Windows 2016 Server as follows:

Parallels RAS Component
Total VMs
vCPU in Each VM
RAM in Each VM

RAS Connection Broker

2

2

4 GB

RAS Secure Gateway

2

2

4 GB

High Availability Load Balancing

2

1

2 GB

RD Session Host

12

6

24 GB

  • All components doubled for redundancy.

  • RDSH N+2 for redundancy.

1000 users

Parallels RAS Component
Total VMs
vCPU in Each VM
RAM in Each VM

RAS Connection Broker

2

2

4 GB

RAS Secure Gateway

2

2

4 GB

High Availability Load Balancing

2

1

2 GB

RD Session Host

24

6

24 GB

  • All components doubled for redundancy.

  • RDSH N+4 for redundancy.