Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 9)

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Leverages Existing Technology Investments
The product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a wide variety of
storage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution. The
product supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network
Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays of Independent
Disks (RAID) devices, tapes, USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storage devices, CDs,
DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover, the product
ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of compression.
Disk cloning and new disk deployment
Acronis True Image Workstation can be used to clone an image onto multiple workstations.
For example, a company purchased several computers and needs similar environments on
each of them. Traditionally, an IT manager should install the operating system and programs
on every workstation. With Acronis True Image Workstation, the IT manager can create a
disk image of the first system deployed. That image can then be duplicated onto multiple
computers.
If you need to upgrade the workstation hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Workstation
simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new one
and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk.
1.2 Acronis True Image Workstation Architecture
Acronis True Image Workstation includes the following components.
1. Acronis True Image Management Console – a tool for managing data backup/restore
in a local network from a single location. Facilities include remote program components
installation, managing computer groups (via Acronis Group Server) and backup archives
(via Acronis Backup Server), scheduling individual and group backup tasks, remote data
recovery, checking backup archives, setting backup/restore options on remote computers.
2. Acronis True Image Agent – an application, enabling remote managing of data
backup/restore on a networked computer from Acronis True Image Management Console.
3. Acronis Backup Server – when installed on a networked computer, automatically
manages backup archives, stored on this computer, in accordance with the rules, set by an
administrator.
4. Acronis Group Server – when installed on a networked computer, allows group
monitoring of backup tasks on all networked computers in real time.
5. Acronis True Image Workstation (local version) – a component for backup/restore
management on a local server. Facilities include scheduling backup tasks, data recovery,
exploring backup archives, cloning hard disks data and formatting partitions on new hard
disks, command-line mode and scripts execution.
6. Acronis Universal Restore– an option to Acronis True Image Workstation (a
separately sold plug-in), enabling Windows to be recovered from an image created on
different hardware.
7. Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder - creates bootable media, its ISO image or
RIS packages enabling data recovery in case of non-Windows or corrupted operating system.
1.3 License policy
Acronis True Image Workstation licensing is based on the number of workstations on which
Acronis True Image Agent and/or Acronis True Image Workstation local version are to be