About Parallels Management Console

Parallels Management Console is a remote tool with a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing your physical servers and virtual machines residing on them. This tool supports managing physical servers running the following Parallels products:

• Parallels Server for Mac
• Parallels Server Bare Metal
• Parallels Server Bare Metal Xserve Edition

Note: In this guide, the information about Parallels Server Bare Metal refers both to Parallels Server Bare Metal and to Parallels Server Bare Metal Xserve Edition.

Parallels Management Console uses a typical client-server architecture.

The client application with the graphical user interface is installed on a computer running one of the supported Linux, Mac, or Windows operating systems. For the full list of supported operating systems, see the Checking System Requirements subsection of the Getting Started With Parallels Management Console user's guide. Once the client application is up and running, it can connect to the Parallels Service software on a physical server. This software is automatically installed on the physical server when you install one of the aforementioned Parallels products. The client application can control multiple physical servers simultaneously (e.g. Physical Server #1 and Physical Server #2 as shown in the picture above). After the connection to the required physical server has been established, you can start managing this server and its virtual machines using the intuitive and comfortable GUI.