RAS VDI Agent Information

RAS VDI Agent is a software that provides an interface to manage a hypervisor through its native API. In Parallels RAS v16.5 and later, RAS VDI Agent is built into the RAS Publishing Agent, so it's already installed in your RAS farm and is ready to be used to manage one or more VDI hosts. Some limitations apply as described below.

Almost all of the hypervisors supported by Parallels RAS can be managed via the built-in RAS VDI Agent. The only exception is QEmu KVM with libvirt. This means that for this hypervisor you must deploy a dedicated RAS VDI Agent as a separate step. For other VDI technologies, you have a choice of using the built-in RAS VDI Agent or installing it separately. The difference is as follows:

• When you use a built-in RAS VDI Agent, you manage multiple (or all) VDI hosts in a RAS farm using the same agent that is already installed in your RAS farm. This eliminates the need to install and maintain the agent separately for each VDI host.
• When you install a dedicated RAS VDI Agent on a different host, it can be used to manage a single VDI host only.

Read next:

• If you are adding a VDI host that will use the built-in RAS VDI Agent, you may skip to Add a VDI Host.
• If you are using QEmu KVM, or if you want to install a dedicated RAS VDI Agent on a different host, read the RAS VDI Agent Installation Options section, which follows this one.