Viewing guest VMs on a Provider
To view all guest VMs that exist on a Provider, including VMs that are not currently managed in Parallels RAS, do the following:
- Navigate to Farm > Site > Providers.
- Select a Provider for which you want to see the guest VM information and click the Guest VM list button (at the bottom of the window, below the Provider list).
- The Guest VM List dialog opens listing guest VMs.
The dialog displays all guest VMs that exist on the selected Provider. This includes template-based and non template-based VMs (which are already managed in Parallels RAS) but also includes virtual machines that were created using native Provider tools outside Parallels RAS. The main purpose of this list is to give a RAS administrator a convenient overview of which virtual machines are available on the Provider.
While in the Guest VM List dialog, you can perform the following tasks on guest VMs:
- Install or update the RAS Guest Agent in any guest VM, including unmanaged VMs.
- Perform power operations on guest VMs (start, stop, restart, suspend, reset). Note that when restart (graceful) is used, there's a 10 min timeout. If the operation cannot be completed during this time, the reset operation (forced) will be used. Please also note that if you are using Nutanix Acropolis, the suspend operation is not available. The reason for this is Nutanix Acropolis does not support the suspend operation on its virtual machines.
- Use the provided tools to perform standard computer management tasks on a guest VM, such as establishing a remote desktop connection, pinging, and others.
- Viewing guest VM properties.
Please note that the same tasks (and more) can be performed on managed guest VMs in the VDI > Desktops tab. For more information, see Managing guest VMs.