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Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Update 1 USER GUIDE

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The master image for deployment can be located in a network folder or on a removable drive (suc

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 c) Deployment server license d) Machine server license If you change the second setting from

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The software will find the most suitable drivers of all available drivers and install them int

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.3.1.5 Summary window Check your settings in the summary window, and then click Save. The

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The preset is: Extend or reduce the volumes being deployed, according to the available space o

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 In addition, you can run any deployment task manually from the Deployment tasks view (p. 133).

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 MAC addresses for bare metal are usually supplied by the hardware manufacturer. You can get th

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Upload a Preinstallation Environment (PE) image to the PXE server by clicking Upload PE ima

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.4.2.2 Creating the deployment task When the deployment is about to start, Acronis Snap Dep

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 (p. 70). This is because choosing a default boot menu option is not available in this case. Yo

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Stop without performing deployment to any machine. The task will start at its next schedule

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 messes up the machine (for example, deletes a file or changes configuration), the student can c

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Install the PXE server in Subnet 1. Enable this PXE server to also work in Subnet 2 by conf

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. In the welcome screen, click Deploy image. If prompted, specify the machine where Acronis

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 As soon as the triggering condition arises, the available machines become engaged in the deplo

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. [Optional.] Choose whether you want to configure the agent. The agent configuration includ

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: Acronis bootable media uses NetBIOS networking protocol to resolve Acronis Snap Deploy 5

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent: ready for deployment 10.4.5 Configuring online deployment Onlin

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.4.7 Deployment behind an NAT device Successful deployment is not guaranteed if Acronis Sna

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Standalone Utility can be placed on a physical media only. This co

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment) Acronis Snap Deploy 5 can be configured in

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 In software testing labs, the choices can be various operating systems, various editions of th

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.5 Features of Acronis Snap Deploy 5 1.5.1 List of machines Acronis Snap Deploy 5 provides t

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you need to perform both user-initiated deployment and deployment through a deployment task

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. Create the deployment templates (p. 85) according to your organization’s needs. Assign to

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6. Review the operation summary and then click Switch on to proceed. The software creates the

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The user who requested deployment sees the following screen while the deployment is in progres

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.7 Deploying BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa Acronis Snap Deploy 5 supports

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 All other operating systems are non-convertible.  Source and target disk partition style: MB

126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Original system Target hardware BIOS Disk: MBR BIOS Disk: GPT UEFI Disk: MBR UEFI Disk: GPT UE

127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Original system Target hardware BIOS UEFI BIOS OS: non- convertible The target disk will be i

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 11 Managing the list of machines (the Machines view) The Machines view shows a list of machine

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Tip: Make sure that you specify the MAC address correctly. Any set of six hexadecimal numbers

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.5.4 Support for the VHD format In addition to using its own format for an image, Acronis Sna

130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Set label: Sets the label that is shown in the Machine column. For example, you can use the

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 12 Individual deployment settings By using individual settings for a machine, you can override

132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  User accounts (p. 95)  Security identifiers (p. 96)  Action after deployment (p. 96) 

133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 13 Managing deployment tasks (the Deployment tasks view) The Deployment tasks view contains th

134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Run: Starts the selected task. The task will wait for machines to become ready and then wil

135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 14 Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE Having booted a machine in Windows Preinstallat

136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 deploy Deploys disks and volumes, including the master boot record (MBR), from an image /filen

137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 14.1.2 Common parameters (parameters common for most commands) Parameter Description Image lo

138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 General options /oss_numbers If this parameter is specified, the numbers of the volumes in the

139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 /partition:<disk number>-<volume number> Specifies the volumes to include into the

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.5.8 Support for multiple network adapters A machine license is bound to the machine’s netwo

140 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 /restore_bootable:<auto|on|off> Sets the rule of deployment for the master boot record (

141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 /patching_sid Generates a unique security identifier (SID) for the target machine. Without thi

142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 /filename:<file name> Displays the image content. When listing image content, volume num

143 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 14.1.4 Usage examples Example 1. The following command creates an image arc.tib of hard dis

144 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Sample script setlocal SET IMG_PATH=\\image_server\images SET TMP_DRV_LETTER=h: net use %TMP_D

145 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Sample script setlocal SET IMG_PATH=\\image_server\images SET TMP_DRV_LETTER=h: net use %TMP_D

146 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 15 Collecting system information The Acronis System Report tool collects information about a m

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.6 Supported operating systems for imaging and deployment Acronis Snap Deploy 5 provides full

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Operating system Imaging and deployment Changing settings License type Windows 8.1 Enterprise (

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.7 Licensing policy Acronis Snap Deploy 5 licensing is based on the number of machines (serve

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.8 Upgrading to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 To upgrade from Acronis Snap Deploy 4 to Acronis Snap D

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.9 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014. All rights reserved. “Acr

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2 Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy 5 This section describes the components of the Acronis Sna

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Administrator The person who has rights to manage the Acronis Snap Deploy 5 infrastructure. U

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Standalone Utility is a bootable component that enables fully-function

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  On USB and FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage devices (hard drives, flash drives) attached to the

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Create a bootable media (either an Acronis media or a WinPE-based media) with Acronis Snap D

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. Connect the console to the master system, click Create image -> Next -> A master imag

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6. Select the machines, click Deploy image on the toolbar, and then follow the Create Deployme

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2.6.2 Acronis Universal Deploy in Windows Automatic HAL and mass-storage drivers selection Acr

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To revert to the original initial RAM disk, do any of the following:  Rename the copy accordi

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3 Getting started with Acronis Snap Deploy 5 This section describes how to install Acronis Sna

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Snap Deploy 5 ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. Click Typical.

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. Click Add license, and then specify the license keys. You can type the license keys manuall

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 When Acronis Snap Deploy 5 starts, the welcome screen appears. Step 3. Creating a bootable med

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In the list of components, select Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent and Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Mas

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Make sure that the CD or DVD drive has a higher boot priority than the hard disk drive. You

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. In the pop-up window, click Cancel or wait until that window closes. 6. Select the volume

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Acronis Snap Deploy 5 starts creating the image. After the image is created, the machine will

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. On the boot menu, click Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent. 4. In the pop-up window, click Cance

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 connect to the server, you may need to adjust network settings, as described in “Booting the ta

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note. If you imaged a machine running a workstation operating system (such as Windows 7) but yo

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2.5.1 Offline imaging ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9. Select the deployment template you created, and then click Next. 10. When asked about when

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 You can view the progress of the deployment both on the machine where you installed Acronis Sna

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  To run the deployment again, open the Deployment tasks view, select the task you created, an

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 5 4.1 Supported operating systems This section lists th

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.2 System requirements Components for Windows Component Disk space required during installati

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  UDP port: 67, 68, 69  Broadcast address: 255.255.255.255 For a remote installation (p. 52)

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 You may want to use custom installation in the following cases:  Installing Acronis Snap Depl

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.5.2 Common installation configurations Acronis Snap Deploy 5 components can be installed in

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 We recommend that you create a master image by using the bootable component called Acronis Snap

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Wake-on-LAN Proxy The list of components 4.5.3.1 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Ma

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.3 Configuring Acronis PXE Server ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: If you have already installed a license server that came with another Acronis product, yo

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Acronis PXE Server starts running as a service immediately after installation. It will automati

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.6 Other ways of installation 4.6.1 Installing components remotely By using Acronis Snap Dep

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.6.1.2 Installation procedure To install a component of Acronis Snap Deploy 5 remotely 1. St

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 An upgrade license key enables you to continue using a license key for the previous version (“o

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. Click Install Acronis Snap Deploy 5. 3. Do one of the following:  To uninstall all compo

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5 Using Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Management Console 5.1 Connecting to a machine 5.1.1 Connect t

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To connect to a component 1. On the Connect menu, click Connect. 2. In Machine, specify the n

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.2 Browsing logs Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server and Acronis PXE Server store the log

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6 Using Acronis Snap Deploy 5 License Server This section contains general information necessa

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 13 Managing deployment tasks (the Deployment tasks view) ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. In the Add Licenses window, type the license key or the path to a .txt or .eml file contain

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 This will display all license keys available on Acronis Snap Deploy 5 License Server. One licen

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 LicenseServerCmdLine --import-file <server name> <file name> In this command:  &l

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Shows usage information.

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7 Deployment tools Before deployment, each target machine must boot into a dedicated bootable

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.2.1 Acronis bootable media Acronis bootable media is a physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash dr

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  No autostart: The Acronis loader will display the boot menu and wait for someone to select w

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If not configured in either way, the deployment server will be found automatically. The agent w

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 selecting a bootable component. No password is required to start the operating system on the ma

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.2.2.1 Components included in the bootable media Each WinPE-based bootable media contains th

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1 Introducing Acronis Snap Deploy 5 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Acronis

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08&a

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6. Select how you want to create the bootable media.  If you want to create a physical media

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  When creating an Acronis bootable media (p. 65) or a WinPE-based bootable media (p. 68). 

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8 Creating a master image To be able to deploy a system, you need to create the desired system

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  By using a bootable media (either Acronis media or WinPE-based media) with Acronis Snap Depl

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The boot menu appears on the master machine. The boot menu on the master machine 5. In the bo

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The manual configuration is needed if automatic configuration is not possible (no DHCP server o

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 place the loader on a hidden volume called System Reserved

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Select the image location in the device tree. In File name, type the file name of the image. To

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 A higher compression level may lead to a smaller size of the image, but creating the image will

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Support for WinPE 5.0.  Automatic switch to unicast if multicast fails during deployment is

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The priority of any process running in the operating system determines the amount of CPU usage

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Alternatively, you can click Always, into the files of fixed size and type the desired file siz

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 After you click Next, the summary of the imaging procedure appears. Check the settings and then

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9 Validating a master image You can ensure that the master image is not damaged by validating

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10 Deploying a master image This section describes how to deploy a master image to one or more

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.3 Deployment templates A deployment template is a set of configuration parameters of the de

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  On DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, or recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R, BD-RE) loaded in the medi

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.3.1.2 Disk and volume selection If the image contains more than one disk, specify the disk

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If the disk you selected contains more than one volume, specify the volumes that you want to de

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 settings is supported (p. 15). You always can specify general settings such as the disk to perf

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 These ways of deployment are also known as manual deployment and scheduled deployment. When the

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If selected and Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Management Agent is not installed in the system that the

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Replace volume: Only the volume with the selected number will be deleted. If the target disk

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Example 2. You are deploying a single 100-GB volume. In Target disk layout, you selected to rep

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The preset is: The same name and membership as those of the machine in the master image By def

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 For example, the pattern {1,5} generates the names 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Similarly, the pattern {8

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Each machine will be assigned an IP address from the range. Make sure that the range is big eno

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Security identifiers This setting determines whether Acronis Snap Deploy 5 will generate unique

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Each file must be located in a network folder. When adding the file, specify the credentials to

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Multicast configuration has a parameter that specifies the time to live (TTL) for multicast pac

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Stop deployment otherwise Specifying licensing settings Based on your selection, the softwa