Please Note: A previous, registered 1-Year Academic Subscription is required to activate this product. No returns are permitted.

Simplify Parallels Desktop management across your Mac fleet. Empower Your Team to Run Windows Securely on Mac.

• Centralized Management Portal: Easily assign, monitor, and manage Parallels Desktop licenses across your organization, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) Integration: Simplify access and enhance security by integrating with your existing identity provider, reducing the need for multiple logins and improving user experience.
• Golden Images for Seamless Setup: Pre-configured and optimized for your organization’s needs, golden images ensure a uniform environment across all users and devices.
• Advanced Security Features: Safeguard your corporate data with enhanced security features, including granular controls and encryption policies.
• Run 200,000+ Apps: Faculty, Staff and Employees can run over 200,000 Windows apps on Mac, including essential business and creative tools.
• Updates that Support the Latest Versions: Stay updated with compatibility for the latest macOS, Windows, Linux, and Mac models.
• Centralized VM Policy Control: Get granular policy-based control of key VM settings, all managed through the Parallels Desktop Management Portal.
• Automate CI/CD with Parallels DevOps: DevOps can streamline development by automating CI/CD workflows for faster, smoother deployment.
• Provisioning with Mac Management Tools: IT Admins can integrate with Mac management tools to quickly provision and configure virtual machines (VMs).

Features include:

• Centralized Management and Security for IT Admins: Enjoy the peace of mind and 24/7 support you get from a Microsoft-authorized solution. Get everything you need in a single streamlined Management Portal.
• Microsoft-Authorized Solution: Rely on a trusted Microsoft-authorized solution for running virtualized Windows environments on Mac, ensuring full compatibility, support, and compliance with Microsoft’s standards.
• Dedicated Onboarding & Support Team: Get priority support, a dedicated account manager, and expert onboarding with system engineers to ensure a smooth deployment and ongoing success with Parallels Desktop.

Core Components:

• Maximum virtual RAM and CPUs: 128 GB vRAM, 32 vCPUs
• Supports latest versions of macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Authorized by Microsoft and SOC 2-certified
• 3D acceleration—DirectX and OpenGL
• Run thousands of Windows apps on your Mac

Advanced Capabilities:

• Run Windows apps with intensive graphics and processing needs
• Command line interface
• Built-in developer tools

System Tools:

• Disk cleanup and memory cleaner
• System and performance monitoring
• Multimedia download and conversion
• Productivity and privacy boosters
• Screen capture and recording

Teams and Small Business (Not available on the Pro Version)

• Centralized administration and license management
• Automation of CI/CD workflows
• Advanced provisioning tools
• Volume Licensing (Contact us for a Custom Quote)
• Jamf and Intune integration for automated deployment and updates

Enterprise (Not available on the Business or Pro Version)

• Management portal for policy enforcement and compliance visibility
• Golden image creation and deployment
• Encrypted VMs locked to organizational control
• Granular control of VM settings, network, USB, clipboard, and shared folders
• SSO/SAML with SCIM provisioning and per-user/device licensing

System Requirements:

Minimum to run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting software, trading software, and more:

• Processor: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series) Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor
• Memory: 4GB of RAM
• Storage: 600 MB for Parallels Desktop application installation; Additional disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows OS)
• Graphics: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA graphics cards
• Operating Systems:
  • macOS Tahoe 26.0 or newer (when released)
  • macOS Sequoia 15.5 or newer
  • macOS Sonoma 14.7 or newer
  • macOS Ventura 13.7 or newer
  • macOS Monterey 12.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Big Sur 11.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Catalina 10.15.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or newer[1]

[1] – the marked OS version is not supported by Parallels Desktop 26, and the product installer will set up an earlier product version; support of guest operating systems can be limited. It is recommended to update macOS if possible.

Best Performance for graphics-intensive applications, software development, high loads, and running multiple virtual machines

• Processor: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); Intel Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 or Xeon processor
• Memory: 16GB of RAM
• Storage: Solid State Drive (SSD)
• Graphics: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); AMD Radeon Pro graphics card
• Operating Systems:
  • macOS Tahoe 26.0 or newer (when released) macOS Sequoia 15.5 or newer macOS Sonoma 14.7 or newer macOS Ventura 13.7 or newer

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple M-series chip)
Only Arm versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise editions (recommended)
• Windows Server 2025 (when released)
• Ubuntu Linux 25.04, 24.04, 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
• Fedora Workstation 42, 41, 40, 39
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, 9
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Kali Linux 2025.2, 2024.2, 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
• CentOS Stream 10, 9
• macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
• macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)
• macOS Sonoma 14 (in-app download)
• macOS Sequoia 15 (in-app download)

Parallels Desktop 26 features a preview version of x86 emulation that allows you to run some of the x86 operating systems.

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with an Intel processor)
Only x86 versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 (recommended)
• Windows 10[1]
• Windows Server 2025 (when released)
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Boot2Docker
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, 9, 8, 7
• CentOS Linux Stream 10, 9
• Fedora Linux 42, 41, 40, 39
• Ubuntu 25.04, 24.04, 23.04, 22.04 LTS, 21.10, 21.04, 20.04 LTS
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Suse Linux Enterprise 15
• Kali 2025.2, 2024.3, 2023.4, 2022.2, 2022.1
• openBSD 6[2]
• Android OS (in-app download only)
• macOS Sequoia 15.0[3]
• macOS Sonoma 14.0[3]
• macOS Ventura 13.0[3]
• macOS Monterey 12.0[3]
• macOS Big Sur 11.0[3]
• macOS Catalina 10.15[3]
• macOS Mojave 10.14.x[3]
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.x[3]
• macOS Sierra 10.12.x[3]
• OS X El Capitan 10.11.x[3]
• OS X Yosemite 10.10.x[3]
• OS X Mavericks 10.9.x[3]
• and many more...

[1] — Only the 64-bit version is supported.
[2] — Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.
[3] — Requires a Mac computer that supports the operating system as a host OS.