Complete system deployment solution using disk imaging technology

Businesses today face increasing challenges when it comes to configuring and deploying new machines in a distributed, corporate environment. Having a deployment solution in place that enables businesses to use a standard configuration for a new PC or server can decrease support expenses significantly. Acronis has a solution to address this need. Acronis Snap Deploy is a comprehensive deployment solution that enables organizations to deploy new machines quickly and easily.

Using Acronis' own award-winning disk imaging technology, the product creates an exact disk image of the standard configuration, including the operating system and all applications. It then deploys that image to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal installations of PCs and servers.

Acronis Snap Deploy also provides configuration management tools to configure system settings, manage files, and execute applications on systems throughout the network.

Key features:

• Management Console — manages deployments from one central location
• Disk image deployment — applies images to bare systems, including an operating system and all applications
• Standard configurations — uses a standard configuration for a new PC or server and saves time on future deployments
• Configuration management tools — manages files, executes applications and configures system settings
• Multicasting — minimizes deployment time by sending image simultaneously to multiple machines
• Wizard-driven Graphical User Interface (GUI) — makes the product easy to use
• Logs view — troubleshoots deployment issues
• Integration with Acronis True Image — uses images created by Acronis True Image for deployment

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Details

Management Console
The Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console provides centralized management of deployments across the network. From the management console you can:

• Deploy images to multiple PCs simultaneously — select systems on the network to deploy the image
• Configuration management — create, edit, and delete software configurations
• Create standard images — clone existing systems and save the images
• Check images — ensure image integrity before using for deployment
• Create bootable media — boot a bare system locally
• Configure Acronis PXE server — boot a bare system from the network without bootable media
• Manage files on remote systems — create and edit files/ folders on a deployed system
• Execute applications on remote PCs — create scheduled tasks to run applications on a deployed system
• View results of deployment operations — open deployment logs

Configuration Management
Acronis Snap Deploy provides configuration management to perform pre- and post-deployment tasks that simplify deployment and ongoing maintenance of systems:

Pre-deployment tools

• Create a standard PC image of an entire existing hard disk drive or selected partitions
• Save the image to almost any device such as:
  • a hard disk drive
  • a network drive
  • a removable storage device
• Compress the image by selecting from one of four compression levels
• Add user account information by entering username and password for target systems
• Assign names to PCs using wild cards to generate unique names
• Assign domain/workgroup membership of PCs
• Set Internet protocol (IP) settings automatically or manually
• Assign DNS server properties automatically or manually
• Change the Security identifier (SID)
• Edit and delete PC configurations
• Post-deployment tools
• Manage files on remote systems by creating and editing files/folders
• Execute applications on remote PCs by scheduling tasks

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Requirements

Acronis Snap Deploy components installation:

• Pentium processor or higher
• 64 MB RAM
• VGA monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse (recommended)
• DHCP server
• FDD, CD-R/RW drive or another drive (USB hard drive, zip drive, flash drive, etc.)

For target computers:

• Pentium processor or higher
• 96 MB RAM
• VGA monitor
• Keyboard
• FDD, CD-ROM drive, any other drive (USB hard drive, zip drive, flash drive, etc.)
• PXE support in BIOS (if you want to boot Acronis Snap Deploy components from Acronis PXE Server)

Supported operating systems

Acronis OS deploy server

• Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server
• Windows NT/2000/XP

Acronis Snap Deploy management console

• Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server
• Windows NT/2000/XP
• Windows 98/Me

Operating systems for deployment

• Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server
• Windows NT/2000/XP
• Windows 98/Me

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