ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY 3 - FOR WORKSTATION Manual page 39

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
to work with your deployment server when scheduling the deployment. To ensure that the target
computer boots into the deployed OS
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
targets
.
If not configured in either way, the deployment server will be found automatically.
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
© Acronis, Inc
after the deployment
Settings for the Acronis Snap Deploy Agent
before the deployment
, choose the Booting from HDD option
, tune the PXE Server
11.1 Booting up the
39