Persistent Guest VMs

A guest VM is called persistent when it is assigned to a particular user. To make a guest VM persistent, do the following:

1. Begin publishing a desktop or a resource hosted by the guest VM.
2. When specifying Guest VM Settings options, select Persistent (see Publishing an Application from a Guest VM for an example of the Persistent option; other types of resource also have it).
3. Complete the publishing wizard.

As a result, the first user who uses a desktop or a resource from this guest VM will become the owner of the VM (i.e. the VM will be assigned to the user).

To view persistent guest VMs:

1. In the Parallels RAS Console, navigate to Farm / <site> / VDI.
2. Select the Desktops tab in the right pane.

The tap page lists guest VMs, each of which is currently assigned to a particular user. The information includes the user name, guest VM name, pool name, VDI host, last time a VM was used, etc.

To remove persistence from a guest VM, do one of the following:

• Select a guest VM on the Desktops tab page and then click Tasks > Delete.
• Use the Auto remove persistence if guest VM was not used for drop-down menu to define an automatic removal rule. In the menu, select the time period after which persistence should be automatically removed. You can also type any desired time period, such as "1 week 3 days".