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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2. Understanding Acronis Snap
Deploy
This chapter describes the Acronis Snap Deploy infrastructure components and their interaction.
2.1 Terminology
The following table lists the common terms and descriptions used in this document.
Master system
The system to be deployed.
Master image
(Image)
A file that contains the master system in a packaged form. The file has a
“.tib” extension.
Online imaging
Taking an image while the master system is in a production state (the
operating system is running on the master computer.)
Offline imaging
Taking an image while the master computer is booted into Acronis or
Windows preinstallation environment.
Deployment
Transferring the operating system (OS), applications and data from the
master image file to a physical hard disk. In most cases, deployment is
performed by multicasting the image through the network.
Standalone
deployment
Deployment on a computer isolated from a network or included in a
network without Acronis Snap Deploy infrastructure. Standalone
deployment is performed locally using the bootable Acronis Snap Deploy
component.
Target disk
The physical disk to be deployed to (an internal hard disk of the target
computer.)
Target computer
(Target)
The hardware to be deployed to.
Deployment
template
(Template)
Configuration parameters of the deployment operation:
1. Path to the master image
2. The operation mode (multicast or unicast, how to handle the target disk
free space etc.)
3. Settings to be applied to the deployed systems (DNS names, user
accounts etc.)
4. Operations to be performed on the deployed systems (transfer files,
execute applications, shut down, restart)
Once you save a deployment template, you can use it in the future.
Administrator
The person who has rights to manage Acronis Snap Deploy infrastructure.
Custom
deployment
mode
The mode when deployment can be initiated on the target side only.