ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY 3 - FOR WORKSTATION Betriebsanweisung

Acronis Snap Deploy 5 USER GUIDE

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Scenarios Scenario 1 You want to perform deployment to several machines. For each machine, you

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Select whether to use Acronis Universal Deploy In Windows, Acronis Universal Deploy uses three

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

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Machine name and membership (p. 91) The preset is: The same as of the master system  TCP/

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 A deployment task runs according to a deployment template (p. 85). When creating the task, you

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 00-01-23-45-67-1A 02-01-23-45-67-1B You can then specify this file when creating the deploymen

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Setting up a machine to boot from PXE For bare metal, it is enough that the machine BIOS confi

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The following picture illustrates deployment to specific machines within a single subnet. If t

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Now: The task will run immediately after you create it.  Once later: The task will run on

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The task appears in the Deployment tasks view. When the task is started, the connected machine

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 deployment when a specified number of machines is reached. Deployment is usually performed by

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 When deploying a system volume, Acronis Snap Deploy 5 will automatically repair the bootability

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you specify a time-out, the deployment will start either when any 70 machines connect, or w

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  To perform deployment to the specific machines (p. 103) that do not support the Wake-on-LAN

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To load the agent with the default configuration (recommended in most cases), click Cancel or

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

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 When Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent starts and the target machine is ready for deployment, the ta

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10.4.5 Operations with deployment tasks Once a deployment task is created, it appears in the

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  If Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy is installed in that subnet, forward the TCP and UDP ports 987

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 should not save the image to an internal hard disk of the target machine, because it cannot be

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Users who need to redeploy their machines boot the machines from the bootable media or the PXE

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Tip: To find a template in the custom boot menu, press a letter key which corresponds to the f

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Set up deployment for one or more machines.  Organize machines into groups. 1.4.2 List o

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

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

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

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

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  64-bit versions of all Windows Server operating systems starting with Windows Server 2008 x

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

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

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

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 11.2 Groups of machines Using groups helps you to organize the list of machines. For example,

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 11.4 States and results for machines The State column shows the current state related to depl

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 By using the GUI, you can take a master image and perform deployment. You may want to use a Win

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

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  User accounts (p. 94)  Security identifiers (p. 95)  Action after deployment (p. 95) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.4.9 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling Deployment configuration has a parameter

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

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

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

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

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 15 Collecting system information The Acronis System Report tool collects information about a m

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Deploying an operating system requires a license. Depending on the type of an operating system,

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Operating system Imaging and deployment Changing settings License type (No Service Pack or Serv

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  A machine license enables an unlimited number of deployments to a particular machine. You ma

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 You should obtain one upgrade license for Acronis Snap Deploy 5 (ASD5) per each license for Acr

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 the product. See Registering Acronis Products at the Website (http://kb.acronis.com/content/483

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 3. Do one of the following:  Create a bootable media (either an Acronis media or a WinPE-bas

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 Details. The target machine becomes ready for deployment when it connects to Acronis Snap Deplo

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 2.5.3 Deployment ...

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 What you can do next In the navigation pane, you can open the corresponding views to navigate a

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. 51)

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 the network (not necessarily on the master machine) makes sense. You will be able to validate (

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 8 Creating a master image ...

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 4.6.1.1 Preparation Before proceeding with remote installation, prepare the remote machines as

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7. To allow restarting the remote machine if it is required for installation, select the Resta

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. If you are upgrading Acronis OS Deploy Server apart from Acronis License Server, specify th

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Uninstalling Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server does not delete the deployment tasks, deplo

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 an Acronis component, you need the administrator’s privileges on the remote machi

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 2. Go to the folder where Acronis Snap Deploy 5 License Server is installed. By default, the f

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 --import-file <server name> <file name> Imports license keys from a .txt or an .eml

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=696DD665-9F76-4177-A811-39C26D3B3B34&a

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  If you want to create a PE image (a WIM file) to later upload it to the PXE server (p. 71),

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To perform a direct configuration of the PXE server 1. Start Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Management

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 stand-alone deployment to Microsoft Surface Pro and Microsoft Surface Pro 2 table

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 The imaging operation starts and its progress is displayed. Acronis Snap Deploy 5 is taking th

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. 14). You always can specify general settings such as the disk to perf

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Machines that do not support Wake-on-LAN can be booted into the Acronis environment manually bef

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: The active volume of the target disk will remain active. Even if you deploy an active vol

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Example 3. You are deploying two 50-GB volumes. Because you are deploying more than one volume,

92 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

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Generates count consecutive numbers starting with start. For example, the pattern {1,5} generat

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Specify a range of static IP addresses, a subnet mask, and a default gateway for the target

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

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

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  With the Unicast mode, the server divides the speed among 10 machines. Therefore, the data t

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Licensing This setting determines which type of license to use for deployment to a target machi

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  During deployment: Use deployment licenses  If there are no deployment licenses: Use a mac