Acronis Snap Deploy 4 - User Guide - Manual (Page 12)

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1.3.3 New: List of machines
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 provides the Machines view (p. 127). This view contains a list of all machines
that you added for deployment or that have ever been deployed.
In this view, you can:
 View and edit the list of machines.
 Check which machines are ready for deployment.
 Examine the current state of the deployment operation, and the result of the last deployment.
 Add machines for subsequent deployment by specifying the machines’ MAC addresses.
 Specify individual deployment settings (p. 9).
 Set up deployment for one or more machines.
 Organize machines into groups.
1.3.4 New: List of deployment tasks
Centralized deployment is performed by a deployment task. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 provides a list of
deployment tasks in the Deployment tasks (p. 132) view.
In this view, you can:
 View and edit the list of tasks, including scheduled tasks and tasks that perform deployment
when a specified number of machines are ready.
 Edit tasks; for example, to change the list of machines to perform deployment to.
 Start any task manually; for example, to perform deployment outside the normal schedule.
 Examine the current state of the task and the result of the last run of the task.
1.3.5 New: Per-deployment licensing
In addition to per-machine licensing, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 supports per-deployment licensing.
A deployment license enables you a single successful deployment to a particular machine. A machine
license enables you an unlimited number of deployments to a particular machine.
For more details, see “Licensing policy” (p. 16).
Scenario
You provision machines to end users by deploying the operating system with the necessary software
to a machine and then shipping the machine to the end user. Because you are planning to perform
deployment to each machine only once, you want a cheaper license for the machine.
You buy a number of deployment licenses based on the number of machines that you want to
provision. A deployment license becomes used only if the deployment to the corresponding machine
has been successful.
1.3.6 New: Support for the VHD format
In addition to using its own format for an image, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can perform deployment
from a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file. Such file stores contents of one or more disks. It can be created in
Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.