Operation Manual

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Table of Contents
1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy® ............................................................................... 6
1.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................. 6
1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Deploy ........................................................................................... 6
1.1.2 Who needs Acronis Snap Deploy? ................................................................................... 6
1.1.3 Acronis Snap Deploy infrastructure .................................................................................. 6
1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 3 ......................................................................... 7
1.2.1 Take an image of the master system (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality) ..................... 7
1.2.2 Manual deployment (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality) .............................................. 7
1.2.3 Scheduled deployment (new in v 3) ................................................................................. 7
1.2.4 Event-driven deployment (new in v 3) ............................................................................. 8
1.2.5 Command line and scripting under Win PE (new in v 3) .................................................... 8
1.2.6 Standalone deployment (new in v 3) ............................................................................... 9
1.2.7 Custom Deployment (User-initiated deployment) (new in v 3) ........................................... 9
1.2.8 Deployment of a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3) ........................................................ 10
1.2.9 Selective deployment (MAC filtering) (new in v 3)........................................................... 10
1.2.10 Password protection (new in v 3) ................................................................................ 10
1.2.11 Manage a remote computer (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality) .............................. 10
1.3 What else is new in v 3? ..................................................................................................... 11
1.3.1 Encrypted communication ............................................................................................. 11
1.3.2 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling ............................................................. 11
1.4 Supported operating systems .............................................................................................. 11
1.5 License policy ..................................................................................................................... 12
1.5.1 Server and workstation licenses .................................................................................... 12
1.5.2 Licenses for Acronis Universal Deploy ............................................................................ 12
1.5.3 Acronis Snap Deploy trial version ................................................................................... 12
1.6 Upgrade to v 3 ................................................................................................................... 13
1.6.1 Upgrading licenses ....................................................................................................... 13
1.6.2 Upgrading components ................................................................................................. 13
1.7 Technical support ............................................................................................................... 14
2. Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy ............................................................................... 15
2.1 Terminology ....................................................................................................................... 15
2.2 Components ....................................................................................................................... 16
2.3 Support for file systems and storage media .......................................................................... 17
2.3.1 Supported file systems .................................................................................................. 17
2.3.2 Supported media .......................................................................................................... 17
2.4 Usage ................................................................................................................................ 17
2.4.1 Offline imaging ............................................................................................................. 18
2.4.2 Online imaging ............................................................................................................. 19
2.4.3 Deployment ................................................................................................................. 19
2.5 What is Acronis Universal Deploy ......................................................................................... 21
2.5.1 Acronis Universal Deploy purpose .................................................................................. 21
2.5.2 Acronis Universal Deploy general principles .................................................................... 21
2.5.3 Acronis Universal Deploy and Microsoft Sysprep ............................................................. 22
2.5.4 Getting Acronis Universal Deploy ................................................................................... 22
3. Installation ..................................................................................................................... 23
3.1 System requirements .......................................................................................................... 23
3.2 Used ports and IP addresses ............................................................................................... 23
3.3 General rules of installation ................................................................................................. 24
3.3.1 Installation file ............................................................................................................. 24
3.3.2 Common installation configurations ............................................................................... 24
3.4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console ..................................................... 26
3.5 Installation of Acronis License Server ................................................................................... 26