Acronis Snap Deploy 5 - User Guide - Manual (Page 10)

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The master image for deployment can be located in a network folder or on a removable drive (such
as a DVD) on the machine you are performing deployment to. The image cannot be located on the
local hard disk of the machine, because deployment usually involves overwriting the contents of the
disk.
1.4.5 Deployment with individual deployment settings
You can set up individual deployment settings (p. 131) for a machine. These settings will override the
general settings of the deployment operation (the deployment template).
Scenarios
Scenario 1
You want to perform deployment to several machines. For each machine, you want to assign a
specific name, rather than an automatically-generated name.
1. You enter the MAC addresses of the machines so that they all appear in the list of machines.
2. You select each machine in the list and specify an individual setting: the machine name.
3. You set up a deployment operation. Other deployment settings will be the same for all machines.
Scenario 2
You want to perform deployment to a big number of machines. For one of those machines, however,
you need to perform deployment to the second hard disk, rather than to the first hard disk.
1. You enter the MAC addresses of all machines so that all machines appear in the list of machines.
2. You specify an individual setting for the corresponding machine: to deploy to the second hard
disk.
3. You set up a deployment operation to perform deployment to the first hard disk. Deployment to
that specific machine will be performed to the second hard disk.
1.4.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment)
Acronis Snap Deploy 5 can be configured in such a way that users will be able to deploy and
re-deploy their machines with one click on the boot menu.
This way of deployment is also called custom deployment.
Scenarios
Scenario 1
Software testers have to deploy clean operating systems or preconfigured systems on test
machines.
A test team leader creates a custom bootable media or a PXE package that provides a fixed set of
choices on the target side. A test team member reboots a test machine and selects what to
deploy from the boot menu with one click. The deployment starts immediately. The choices can
be various operating systems, various editions of the same operating system, the same operating
system with various settings or various applications, to name a few. The deployment proceeds
independently on each machine.
Scenario 2
In a university or school lab, switching between exercises requires reconfiguring the machine
entirely. Students can switch or restart exercises without the teacher’s assistance. If a student