Table Of Contents - ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY 3 - FOR WORKSTATION Manual

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? ................................................................................................... 10
1.3.1 Encrypted communication .......................................................................................... 10
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 ................................................................................................................ 12
1.6.1 Upgrading licenses ..................................................................................................... 13
1.6.2 Upgrading components .............................................................................................. 13
1.7 Technical support ............................................................................................................ 13
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
3.5.1 Installation ................................................................................................................ 26
3.5.2 Adding licenses using Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console .................................. 27
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