Specifications

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Pocket ACE Guide
Creating the Pocket ACE Deployment Package
TheactualcreationofthepackagefordeployingyourPocketACEinstancesisdoneusingthePocketACE
PackageWizard.YoucanstartthePocketACEPackageWizardfromtheworkspacetaboftheACEmasteryou
createdforyourPocketACEinstancesbyselectingCreatePocketACEPackage.
Youmust
provideanameforthePocketACEpackageandalocationforstoringthepackageandits
accompanyingconfigurationfiles.ThiswilltypicallybetheACEmanagementstationwhereVMwareACE2
isrunninganditshouldbebackedupregularly.
Player Selection
SelectingbothWindowsandLinuxcreatesapackagewiththenecessaryfilesneededfordeploymenttoboth
platforms.However,italsoincreasesthetotalamountofstorageneededontheportablemedia.Ifyouexpect
enduserstoconnectonlyfromWindows‐based hosts,youcanpackageonlytheWindowsplayer.
Deployment Password
EnterapasswordthatwillbeusedwhenthePocketACEdeployutilityisrun.
Configuringadeploymentpasswordensuresthatonlysomeonewhoknowsthepasswordcandeploya
PocketACEinstanceusingthedeployutility.
Package Summary
Afterithasbeencompleted,apackagesummaryisdisplayedthatletsyoureviewyourentriesbeforecreating
thepackage.
Deploying the Pocket ACE package
Thereareafewwaysto deployPocketACEpackages.Oneistorunthedeployutilityfromthedirectorywhere
theACEmasterisstored.AnotherwaytodeployaPocketACEpackageisbyusingthetabbedworkspace.
Whendeployingfromthetabbedworkspace,thePocketACEdeployutility
canbeaccessedbyrightclicking
onthePocketACEpackagefromthepackagehistoryandselectingProperties.
AfterselectingthepackageasummaryofthePocketACEpackagewillappear.Fromthere,youcanlaunchthe
PocketACEdeployutilitybyclickingtheDeployPocketACEbutton.
Whendeploying
thePocketACEinstance,yourportablemediashouldbepluggedinandavailable.After
launchingthePocketACEdeployutility,thePocketACEdeploywizardwillappear.