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Table Of Contents
- 1 Introducing Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 1.2.1 Taking an image of the master system
- 1.2.2 Deployment to specific machines (immediate, manual, and scheduled deployment)
- 1.2.3 Deployment to any ready machines (event-driven deployment)
- 1.2.4 Stand-alone deployment
- 1.2.5 Deployment with individual deployment settings
- 1.2.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment)
- 1.2.7 Deployment of a disk volume and MBR
- 1.2.8 Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE
- 1.3 Features of Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 1.3.1 New: List of machines
- 1.3.2 New: List of deployment tasks
- 1.3.3 New: Per-deployment licensing
- 1.3.4 New: Support for the VHD format
- 1.3.5 New: Graphical user interface in WinPE
- 1.3.6 New: E-mail notifications about deployment
- 1.3.7 New: Compatibility with Acronis True Image, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 backups
- 1.3.8 New: Support for multiple network adapters
- 1.3.9 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling
- 1.3.10 New: Falling back to unicast
- 1.3.11 Encrypted communication
- 1.3.12 Password protection
- 1.4 Supported operating systems for imaging and deployment
- 1.5 Licensing policy
- 1.6 Upgrading to Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 1.7 Technical Support
- 2 Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 3 Getting started with Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 4.1 Supported operating systems
- 4.2 Used ports and IP addresses
- 4.3 Typical installation
- 4.4 Custom installation
- 4.4.1 Installation procedure
- 4.4.2 Common installation configurations
- 4.4.3 Installation of components
- 4.4.3.1 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Console
- 4.4.3.2 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server
- 4.4.3.3 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server
- 4.4.3.4 Installation of Acronis PXE Server
- 4.4.3.5 Installation of Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy
- 4.4.3.6 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Agent
- 4.4.3.7 Installation of Acronis Universal Deploy
- 4.5 Other ways of installation
- 4.6 Upgrading Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 4.7 Uninstalling Acronis Snap Deploy 4
- 5 Using Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Console
- 6 Using Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server
- 7 Deployment tools
- 8 Creating a master image
- 9 Validating a master image
- 10 Deploying a master image
- 10.1 Files supported as master images
- 10.2 Licenses for deployment
- 10.3 Deployment templates
- 10.4 Deployment through a deployment task
- 10.5 Stand-alone deployment
- 10.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment)
- 11 Managing the list of machines (the Machines view)
- 12 Individual deployment settings
- 13 Managing deployment tasks (the Deployment tasks view)
- 14 Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE
- 15 Collecting system information
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§ Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator is a bootable, locally controlled component that
creates an image of the master system.
There are two ways to load Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator on a master machine:
directly from bootable media or remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.
§ Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility is a bootable component that enables fully-functional
deployment with a GUI on a stand-alone machine (a machine isolated from the network or
included in a network without Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure).
The only way to load Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility is from an Acronis bootable media.
§ Acronis System Report is a bootable component that collects information about the machine
and saves this information to a locally-attached USB drive.
There are two ways to load Acronis System Report: directly from an Acronis bootable media or
remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.
2.3 Support for file systems and storage media
2.3.1 Supported file systems
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 provides full-featured imaging and deployment of the following file systems:
§ FAT16
§ FAT32
§ NTFS
§ Ext2
§ Ext3
§ Ext4
§ ReiserFS
§ Reiser4
§ Linux SWAP
§ XFS
§ JFS
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can perform imaging and deployment of corrupted or unsupported file
systems by using a sector-by-sector approach. This approach usually leads to a bigger size of the
master image and makes the imaging or deployment process longer. A volume with an unsupported
file system cannot be resized during deployment.
2.3.2 Supported media
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator and Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Agent can
save an image:
§ In a network folder.
§ On an internal hard disk of the master machine.
§ On USB and FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage devices (hard drives, flash drives) attached to the
master machine.
§ On DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, or recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R, BD-RE) loaded in the
media drive of the master machine.