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Scenarios

Scenario 1

You want to perform deployment to several machines. For each machine, you want to assign a

specific name, rather than an automatically-generated name.

1. You enter the MAC addresses of the machines so that they all appear in the list of machines.

2. You select each machine in the list and specify an individual setting: the machine name.

3. You set up a deployment operation. Other deployment settings will be the same for all machines.

Scenario 2

You want to perform deployment to a big number of machines. For one of those machines, however,

you need to perform deployment to the second hard disk, rather than to the first hard disk.

1. You enter the MAC addresses of all machines so that all machines appear in the list of machines.

2. You specify an individual setting for the corresponding machine: to deploy to the second hard

disk.

3. You set up a deployment operation to perform deployment to the first hard disk. Deployment to

that specific machine will be performed to the second hard disk.

1.3.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment)

Acronis Snap Deploy 5 can be configured in such a way that users will be able to deploy and

re-deploy their machines with one click on the boot menu.

This way of deployment is also called custom deployment.

Scenarios

Scenario 1

Software testers have to deploy clean operating systems or preconfigured systems on test

machines.

A test team leader creates a custom bootable media or a PXE package that provides a fixed set of

choices on the target side. A test team member reboots a test machine and selects what to

deploy from the boot menu with one click. The deployment starts immediately. The choices can

be various operating systems, various editions of the same operating system, the same operating

system with various settings or various applications, to name a few. The deployment proceeds

independently on each machine.

Scenario 2

In a university or school lab, switching between exercises requires reconfiguring the machine

entirely. Students can switch or restart exercises without the teacher’s assistance. If a student

messes up the machine (for example, deletes a file or changes configuration), the student can

choose a self-restore option from the boot menu.

1.3.7 Deployment of a disk volume and MBR

You do not necessarily have to deploy the entire disk. Provided that the master and the target disks

have a similar partitioning scheme, you can image and deploy only the system volume or only the

data, depending on your needs.