Parallels RAS PowerShell - VDI Example

#Establish a connection with Parallels RAS (Replace Administrator with your RAS root account). New-RASSession Administrator

###### FARM CONFIGURATION ######

#Add a VDI Host servers. $VDIHost = New-VDIHost -Server "vdi.company.dom" -VDIType VmwareESXi6_0 -VDIUsername root -VDIAgentOStype Appliance -VDIAgent "vdiagent.company.do" -Username root

#Apply settings, for the Publishing Agent to connect with the new VDI Host. Invoke-Apply

#Get the list of Virtual Machines through the RAS VDI Host Agent Get-VM -VDIHostId $VDIHost.Id

	Name             State    ID                                       Host ID  Site ID
	----             -----    --                                       -------  -------
	Windows 8        On       564d5e6f-3fad-bcf9-7c6b-bac9f212713d     1        1
						

#Convert a VM to VDI Guest New-VDIGuest -VDIHostId $VDIHost.Id -Id 564d5e6f-3fad-bcf9-7c6b-bac9f212713d -Username Administrator

#Convert a VDIGuest to VDITemplate $vmTemplate = New-VDITemplate -VDIHostId $VDIHost.Id -VDIGuestId 564d5e6f-3fad-bcf9-7c6b-bac9f212713d -TemplateName Win8template -GuestNamePrefix Win8- -MaxGuests 5 -PreCreatedGuests 2 -ImagePrepTool RASPrep -OwnerName Owner -Organization Parallels -JoinDomain company.dom -Administrator Administrator -CloneMethod LinkedClone -TargetOU "OU=VDI,DC=dom,DC=company"

###### PUBLISHING CONFIGURATION ######

#Add published desktop making use of the VDI Template. New-PubVDIDesktop -Name VDIDesktop -ConnectTo SpecificRASTemplate -VDITemplate $vmTemplate -Persistent $true

#Apply all settings. This cmdlet performs the same action as the Apply button in the RAS console. Invoke-Apply

#End the current RAS session. Remove-RASSession