RD Session Host Types

Beginning with Parallels RAS v16.5, you can create and add to a RAS farm the following types of RD Session Hosts:

• Individual servers. These can be physical boxes or virtual machines treated as physical servers.
• Virtual machines (VMs) created from a RAS Template, which is a part of RAS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The main advantage of using VMs is the ability to create as many of them as you require from a single RAS Template. RD Session Hosts based on a RAS Template are described in the Grouping and Cloning RD Session Hosts section .

Considering that RAS Template is a part of RAS VDI, some aspects of creating, provisioning, and managing RD Session Hosts based on a RAS Template differ from the regular RD Session Hosts (individual servers). For example, RAS Template-based hosts are added to a farm automatically from a group, not manually by the administrator. There are some other differences which are described in various sections of this chapter. When reading these sections, please pay attention to whether or not a particular functionality applies to RD Session Hosts based on a RAS Template.