User Guide

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Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INFORMATION................................................................................................6
1.1. KEY FEATURES ....................................................................................................................................... 6
1.2. ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY ARCHITECTURE................................................................................................. 7
1.3. HOW ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY WORKS ....................................................................................................7
1.4. SOFTWARE USAGE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ...........................................................................................8
CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION.................................................................................9
2.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS...........................................................................................................9
2.3 SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS AND MEDIA ...................................................................................................9
2.4 USED PORTS AND IP ADDRESSES ..........................................................................................................10
2.5 LICENSE POLICY.................................................................................................................................... 10
2.6 ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY COMPONENTS INSTALLATION ......................................................................... 10
2.7 ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY COMPONENTS EXTRACTION ............................................................................ 12
2.8 USING ACRONIS LICENSE SERVER MANAGEMENT TOOL .......................................................................12
2.9 USING ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY TRIAL VERSION....................................................................................13
2.10 RUNNING ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY........................................................................................................13
2.11 COMPONENTS MODIFICATION ...............................................................................................................14
2.12 REPAIRING COMPONENTS......................................................................................................................15
2.13 REMOVING COMPONENTS ..................................................................................................................... 15
2.14 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................ 16
CHAPTER 3. USING ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY MANAGEMENT CONSOLE................................17
3.1 KEY FEATURES .....................................................................................................................................17
3.2 CONNECTING TO A REMOTE COMPUTER ................................................................................................ 18
3.3 INSTALLING ACRONIS COMPONENTS ON A REMOTE PC.........................................................................19
3.4 BROWSING LOGS...................................................................................................................................20
CHAPTER 4. PRE-DEPLOYMENT OPERATIONS ...............................................................................22
4.1. CREATING MASTER IMAGE.................................................................................................................... 22
4.1.1. OS preparation for disk duplication process...............................................................................22
4.1.2. Running Acronis Master Image Creator..................................................................................... 23
4.1.3. Selecting disks.............................................................................................................................24
4.1.4. Selecting image location .............................................................................................................25
4.1.5. Selecting image file size ..............................................................................................................26
4.1.6. Selecting data compression level ................................................................................................27
4.1.7. Providing comments....................................................................................................................28
4.1.8. Image creation script ..................................................................................................................29
4.2. CHECKING MASTER IMAGES.................................................................................................................. 30
4.3. CREATING BOOTABLE MEDIA WITH ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY AGENT ....................................................31
4.4. BOOTABLE DISKS CREATION ................................................................................................................. 32
4.5. INITIAL SETUP AND BOOTUP..................................................................................................................33
4.6. CONFIGURING ACRONIS PXE SERVER..................................................................................................34
CHAPTER 5. DEPLOYMENT....................................................................................................................36
5.1 MANAGING DEPLOYMENT.....................................................................................................................36
5.1.1 Selecting target computers ..............................................................................................................36
5.1.2 Selecting template mode..................................................................................................................37
5.1.3 Selecting a master image to deploy .................................................................................................39
5.1.4 Adding user information.................................................................................................................. 39
5.1.5 Computer name ...............................................................................................................................40