Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy®
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 3
- 1.2.1 Take an image of the master system (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.2 Manual deployment (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.3 Scheduled deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.4 Event-driven deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.5 Command line and scripting under Win PE (new in v 3)
- 1.2.6 Standalone deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.7 Custom Deployment (User-initiated deployment) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.8 Deployment of a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3)
- 1.2.9 Selective deployment (MAC filtering) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.10 Password protection (new in v 3)
- 1.2.11 Manage a remote computer (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.3 What else is new in v 3?
- 1.4 Supported operating systems
- 1.5 License policy
- 1.6 Upgrade to v 3
- 1.7 Technical support
- 2. Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy
- 3. Installation
- 3.1 System requirements
- 3.2 Used ports and IP addresses
- 3.3 General rules of installation
- 3.4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 3.5 Installation of Acronis License Server
- 3.6 Installation of Acronis OS Deploy Server
- 3.7 Installation and setup of Acronis PXE Server
- 3.8 Installation of Acronis WOL Proxy
- 3.9 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Agent
- 3.10 Installation of Acronis Universal Deploy
- 3.11 Extracting the Acronis Snap Deploy components
- 3.12 Using Acronis License Server
- 4. Using Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 5. Creating Acronis bootable media
- 6. Configuring PXE Server
- 7. Taking an image
- 8. Checking the master image
- 9. Deployment templates
- 9.1 Why save templates?
- 9.2 Creating templates
- 9.2.1 Master image selection
- 9.2.2 Disk/partition selection
- 9.2.3 Target disk and partition selection
- 9.2.4 User accounts
- 9.2.5 Computer names and domain/workgroup
- 9.2.6 Network settings
- 9.2.7 Security identifiers
- 9.2.8 Transferring files
- 9.2.9 Executing applications
- 9.2.10 Using Acronis Universal Deploy
- 9.2.11 Deployment options
- 9.2.12 Comments and summary
- 10. Standalone deployment
- 11. Manual deployment
- 12. Event-driven deployment
- 13. Scheduled deployment
- 14. Custom deployment mode
- 15. Command line and scripting under Win PE and Bart PE
- 16. Managing a remote computer
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* - S – server license, WS – workstation license.
Acronis Snap Deploy enables, with certain limitations (some operations or options will not be
available), imaging and deployment of any PC-based operating system. For example, Windows
98/NT/ME, NT/4.0 Server, Linux (kernel: 2.4.9 – 2.6.x) can be deployed only as is, on-the-fly
settings adjustment is not performed.
The Acronis Universal Deploy option is not applicable to Windows 98/NT/ME and NT/4.0 Server.
1.5 License policy
Acronis Snap Deploy licensing is based on the number of deployed and/or managed computers
(servers or workstations.) For example, to deploy a system on 100 computers you need 100
deployment licenses. No additional licenses are required to manage the deployed computers or re-
deploy any of them.
1.5.1 Server and workstation licenses
Acronis Snap Deploy has two types of licenses. A license for the server product is needed to deploy a
server operating system or install the management agent on a server operating system. A license for
the workstation product is needed to deploy a workstation operating system or install the management
agent on a workstation operating system.
A workstation license is needed to deploy a disk or partition that does not contain an operating
system, if the target computer has not been assigned a license before.
Linux is considered as a server OS. The explicit list of server and workstation operating systems is in
the previous section.
If Acronis Snap Deploy fails to identify the type of operating system, the operating system is
considered as a workstation OS.
A server license could be used instead of a workstation license automatically or through a prompt.
1.5.2 Licenses for Acronis Universal Deploy
Acronis Universal Deploy is an add-on to Acronis Snap Deploy and has its own serial numbers and
license agreement.
The Acronis Universal Deploy licenses are counted, used and upgraded in the same way as the Acronis
Snap Deploy licenses. Acronis Universal Deploy also has two types of licenses for server and
workstation operating systems. You need one Universal Deploy license per target computer.
You do not need a license to install Acronis Universal Deploy. However, do not forget to add the
Acronis Universal Deploy licenses to the license server before starting deployment. If the licenses are
not found during deployment, the Acronis Universal Deploy step will be skipped.
1.5.3 Acronis Snap Deploy trial version
The Acronis Snap Deploy trial version has all the functionality of the standard version. To upgrade
from the trial version to the standard product you do not need to re-download the software. Simply
buy the licenses and import them to the license server.