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RDSH groups

When you publish resources in Parallels RAS, you need to specify one or more servers that host them. RDSH groups allow you to combine multiple RD Session Hosts and then publish the resources from the group instead of specifying individual servers.

The main benefits of using RD Session Host groups are as follows:

  • They simplify the management of published resources and are highly recommended in multi-server environments.
  • They allow you to use RD Session Hosts created from a template by utilizing the VDI infrastructure. More on this later in this section.

Note that an RD Session Host can be a member of one group only. You cannot add the same server to multiple groups.

Creating a group

To create an RDSH group:

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure > RD Session Hosts > Groups.
  2. Choose New group from the ellipsis menu (or click the plus-sign icon).
  3. Type a group name and press Enter.
  4. Click the new group name in the list to open the group editing screen.
  5. Click Properties in the middle pane and configure the group. Settings here are similar to settings of an individual RD Session Host. See Configure an RD Session Host.

Using group defaults

RD Sessions Hosts assigned to a group have various settings that they can inherit from the group defaults. This makes it simpler to configure a single set of settings for all servers instead of configuring each server individually. A Site also has its own default settings (Site defaults). Moreover, an RD Session Host group can inherit these Site defaults. This gives you the following choices when inheriting default settings by an RD Session Host:

  • Configure Site defaults and make the group inherit these settings. The RD Session Hosts assigned to the group will therefore also inherit Site defaults. This is the default scenario for a new group.
  • Configure default settings for a given group. This way you can have multiple groups, each having its own group defaults (different from Site defaults). Therefore, the servers assigned to a group will inherit the group defaults.
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