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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No auto start - the Acronis loader will display the boot menu and wait for someone to select
whether to boot the OS or one of the Acronis components.
Booting from HDD – the operating system, if present on the booting computer’s hard disk, will
start after the specified time runs out. This option is designed to make the target computer to
boot into the deployed OS after deployment. The main usage scenario is as follows.
You create a PXE package for scheduled deployment and configure the Acronis Snap Deploy Agent to
start automatically. After the scheduled deployment is completed, the target computer reboots into the
agent again and might be deployed by some other deployment operation. How to avoid this situation?
To ensure that the target computer boots into the agent
before the deployment
, tune the PXE Server
to work with your deployment server when scheduling the deployment. To ensure that the target
computer boots into the deployed OS
after the deployment
, choose the Booting from HDD option
when creating the PXE package for the scheduled deployment.
Acronis Standalone Utility can be placed on a physical media only. This component is not
designed to boot from a PXE server.
2. Acronis Snap Deploy Agent can be configured to connect to a specified deployment server. This
setting allows you to have multiple deployment servers that perform different functions on the
same network.
The deployment server (along with the agent network interface settings) can be specified also
onsite when booting up the agent. To be able to enter the agent configuration onsite, set up a
reasonable delay before applying the default network settings. See details in
11.1 Booting up the
targets
.
If not configured in either way, the deployment server will be found automatically.
Settings for the Acronis Snap Deploy Agent
The option to save the agent’s log to the deploy server is designed for troubleshooting. Normally,
you should leave this checkbox unchecked because additional operations performed by the agent