Single Farm with Remote PC Hosts

A Remote PC is a physical desktop running Windows that can be used for remote application and desktop publishing. In addition to individual Remote PCs, where every PC is published for a single user and must be specified for publishing, we've added Remote PC host pools to Parallels RAS.

Remote PC host pools are targeted for application and desktop publishing from Remote PCs which are located in a single data center. Remote PC host pools provide the most effective hardware utilization for companies that use shift work (e.g. companies that provide 24/7 service) or when users are located in different time zones. A user is assigned a Remote PC on the first use. After a shift ends, the PC is either released back to the host pool to be re-used by a user from the next shift or, depending on the admin settings, the persistence is kept (3 days by default).

Installation Notes

The RAS Guest Agent is used with Remote PC host pools instead of the Remote PC Agent. Host pool membership is built from either a PC list (manually adding individual PCs or importing the list from a CSV file) or based on an Active Directory OU location (the list is refreshed by the RAS Connection Broker every 5 minutes).

RAS Connection Broker is installed using the Parallels RAS installer (standard installation).

RAS Secure Gateway, RAS Guest Agent are push-installed from the RAS console.