Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition - Overview

With the Enterprise Edition, IT departments can support the Macs that business units want, while maintaining compliance to company standards.

Seamlessly run Windows-based business applications on the Mac

With Parallels Desktop for Mac, your Mac users can seamlessly run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side with speed, control and confidence. Business users can experience as much or as little Windows as they want. Multiple view modes make it possible for users to customize the level of integration between Mac and Windows without compromising performance.

Configurable, Policy-compliant solution

Meet policy compliance guidelines through the streamlined business GUI and enhanced mass configuration capabilities of the Enterprise Edition. Enforce corporate change management policies with a software update policy and optional local update server.

Easily fit into existing business processes

Simplify administration with Parallels Desktop Mass Deployment Application for lights-out deployment capabilities reducing the time and expense to roll out the solution. Deploy and manage Parallels client software & virtual machines through standardized Mac software distribution and systems management tools.

Simplify licensing compliance

Simplify license compliance and auditing across the company with a unified Parallels Desktop for Mac volume license key. This license key ensures business support entitlements and access to the latest software updates and versions without the burden of managing individual endpoint licenses.

All-inclusive subscription license

Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition subscriptions are an all-inclusive offering. This offering includes business class support with priority phone and email access, ongoing software updates, major version upgrades and access to beta software. Enterprise Edition customers also have the opportunity to participate in our Gold Customer Council providing feedback and suggestions for future improvements.

Enterprise Edition eligibility

A minimum of 100 annual subscriptions is required to qualify for an Enterprise Edition subscription agreement.  If you need fewer than 100 subscriptions, click here for information on our volume licensing pricing starting with as few as 10 licenses.

What’s different in Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition

Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition starts with the world’s best-selling, top-rated, most-trusted solution for running Windows applications on the Mac, then adds new capabilities to support corporate policy compliance, simplification of mass deployments and streamlining of the business user experience.

• Unified volume license activation key simplifies key management by eliminating the hassle of managing individual end user licenses.
• Streamlined Business interface eliminates individual user registration requirement, third party product installation options as well as in product notifications while adding a customizable “Request Support” menu action to direct users to internal help desk resources.
• Configurable software update policy to enforce change management policies enabling control over the frequency and location of Parallels software updates.
• Local update server option to support company managed software update policies.
• Parallels Desktop for Mac Mass Deployment Application enables centralized configuration and distribution packages for Parallels Desktop & pre-configured virtual machines enabling “lights-out” deployments.
• Annual subscription license that includes software licensing, business class support, software updates, major version upgrades and optional local update servers.

*90-day complimentary subscription plus special offer; Requires software download.

**For Windows only.

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System Requirements

The hardware requirements for Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition are:

Hardware

• A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor.
• Minimum 2 GB of memory (4 GB of memory is recommended to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine or if your host OS is Lion)
• About 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation.
• About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.

Software Requirements

• Mac OS X Lion 10.7
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 or later
• Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 or later

Note: Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.x is not supported in this version of Parallels Desktop.
To get information about your Mac OS X version, type of processor, and amount of memory, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu.

Supported Guest Operating Systems*

32-bit:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista® SP 0, SP 1, SP 2
• Windows Server® 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows Server® 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Professional SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Home SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Windows 2000 Server SP4
• Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6
• Windows ME
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.11
• MS-DOS 6.22
• Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x, 4.x
• Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12
• Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10
• CentOS 5.x, 4.x
• Debian 5.0
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x
• Mandriva 2010, 2009
• Solaris 10
• Open Solaris 2009.06
• FreeBSD 8.x, 7.x
• OS/2® Warp 4.5, 4
• eComStation™ 1.2
• Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (on Lion only. Learn more)
• Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

64-bit:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista® SP 0, SP 1, SP 2
• Windows Server® 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows Server® 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Professional SP2
• Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x
• Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12
• Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10
• CentOS 5.x
• Debian 5.0
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x
• Mandriva 2010, 2009
• Solaris 10
• Open Solaris 2009.06
• FreeBSD 8.x,7.x
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

* – Virtual machine operating systems - such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris - are not included.