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Table of contents

1 Introducing Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .........................................................................................7

1.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................... 7

1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Deploy 4....................................................................................................................... 7

1.1.2 Who needs Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ................................................................................................................ 7

1.1.3 Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure ............................................................................................................ 7

1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ........................................................................... 7

1.2.1 Taking an image of the master system .......................................................................................................... 8

1.2.2 Deployment to specific machines (immediate, manual, and scheduled deployment) ............................. 8

1.2.3 Deployment to any ready machines (event-driven deployment) ............................................................... 9

1.2.4 Stand-alone deployment ................................................................................................................................ 9

1.2.5 Deployment with individual deployment settings ........................................................................................ 9

1.2.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment) ...................................................................................... 10

1.2.7 Deployment of a disk volume and MBR ...................................................................................................... 10

1.2.8 Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE ...................................................................................... 10

1.3 Features of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ..........................................................................................11

1.3.1 New: List of machines ................................................................................................................................... 11

1.3.2 New: List of deployment tasks ..................................................................................................................... 11

1.3.3 New: Per-deployment licensing ................................................................................................................... 12

1.3.4 New: Support for the VHD format ............................................................................................................... 12

1.3.5 New: Graphical user interface in WinPE ...................................................................................................... 12

1.3.6 New: E-mail notifications about deployment ............................................................................................. 13

1.3.7 New: Compatibility with Acronis True Image, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, and Acronis Backup &

Recovery 11 backups ................................................................................................................................. 13

1.3.8 New: Support for multiple network adapters ............................................................................................. 13

1.3.9 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling ....................................................................................... 13

1.3.10 New: Falling back to unicast ......................................................................................................................... 13

1.3.11 Encrypted communication ........................................................................................................................... 14

1.3.12 Password protection ..................................................................................................................................... 14

1.4 Supported operating systems for imaging and deployment ...................................................14

1.5 Licensing policy ........................................................................................................................15

1.5.1 Machine licenses and deployment licenses ................................................................................................ 16

1.5.2 Server licenses and workstation licenses .................................................................................................... 16

1.5.3 Licenses for Acronis Universal Deploy ......................................................................................................... 16

1.5.4 Trial version of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ........................................................................................................ 17

1.6 Upgrading to Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .......................................................................................17

1.6.1 Upgrading licenses ........................................................................................................................................ 17

1.6.2 Upgrading components ................................................................................................................................ 18

1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................18

2 Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .................................................................................. 19

2.1 Terminology .............................................................................................................................19

2.2 Components .............................................................................................................................20

2.3 Support for file systems and storage media ............................................................................21

2.3.1 Supported file systems .................................................................................................................................. 21

2.3.2 Supported media ........................................................................................................................................... 21

2.4 Supported types of disk and firmware interface .....................................................................22

2.5 Usage .......................................................................................................................................23