Acronis Snap Deploy 4 - User Guide - Manual (Page 5)

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012
7.2 Creating a bootable media ......................................................................................................59
7.2.1 Creating an Acronis bootable media .........................................................................................................60
7.2.2 Creating a WinPE-based bootable media ..................................................................................................63
7.3 Configuring Acronis PXE Server ...............................................................................................66
8 Creating a master image ........................................................................................................ 68
8.1 Preparation of the master operating system ..........................................................................68
8.2 Online vs. offline imaging ........................................................................................................68
8.3 Performing online imaging ......................................................................................................69
8.4 Performing offline imaging ......................................................................................................69
8.5 Steps of the Master Image Creator wizard ..............................................................................72
8.5.1 Disks or volumes to image .........................................................................................................................72
8.5.2 Image name and location ...........................................................................................................................73
8.5.3 Options of imaging .....................................................................................................................................74
8.5.4 Comments and summary ...........................................................................................................................77
9 Validating a master image ..................................................................................................... 79
10 Deploying a master image ..................................................................................................... 80
10.1 Files supported as master images ...........................................................................................80
10.2 Licenses for deployment ..........................................................................................................81
10.3 Deployment templates ............................................................................................................81
10.3.1 Creating a deployment template ...............................................................................................................81
10.3.2 Configuring default deployment settings ..................................................................................................99
10.3.3 Managing deployment templates .......................................................................................................... 100
10.4 Deployment through a deployment task .............................................................................. 100
10.4.1 Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ 101
10.4.2 Deployment to specific machines ........................................................................................................... 101
10.4.3 Deployment to any ready machines ....................................................................................................... 107
10.4.4 Booting the target machines ................................................................................................................... 108
10.4.5 Operations with deployment tasks ......................................................................................................... 112
10.4.6 Deployment behind an NAT device ........................................................................................................ 112
10.5 Stand-alone deployment ...................................................................................................... 113
10.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment) ................................................................ 114
10.6.1 Understanding user-initiated deployment ............................................................................................. 114
10.6.2 Considerations when using a PXE server ................................................................................................ 116
10.6.3 Setting up the user-initiated deployment mode .................................................................................... 116
10.6.4 Changing parameters of the user-initiated deployment mode ............................................................. 119
10.6.5 Switching off the user-initiated deployment mode ............................................................................... 119
10.7 BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa ............................................................... 120
10.7.1 Deploying volumes .................................................................................................................................. 120
10.7.2 Deploying disks ........................................................................................................................................ 121
10.8 Bootability troubleshooting .................................................................................................. 123
10.8.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration .......................................................................... 125
10.8.2 How to reactivate LILO ............................................................................................................................ 126
10.8.3 About Windows loaders .......................................................................................................................... 126
11 Managing the list of machines (the Machines view) ............................................................. 127
11.1 Adding machines................................................................................................................... 127