Acronis Snap Deploy 5 - User Guide - Manual (Page 9)

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These ways of deployment are also known as manual deployment and scheduled deployment.
When the deployment is about to start, the software will turn on the target machines with
predefined MAC addresses by using the BIOS Wake-on-LAN (WOL) functionality.
Machines in another subnet can be woken up through a component called Wake-on-LAN Proxy,
which is delivered with Acronis Snap Deploy 5. The machines typically boot into the PXE server that is
installed in the same subnet.
Machines that do not support Wake-on-LAN can be booted into the bootable environment manually
before the deployment starts. Such machines will also be deployed, provided that they are listed for
deployment.
Machines that are always turned on before the deployment starts can be configured to reboot
automatically into the bootable environment. This feature is called online deployment (p. 115).
Scenarios
Scenario 1. An organization receives a shipment of machines from a manufacturer along with the list
of their MAC addresses. The IT department has to deploy the operating system to the new hardware.
Scenario 2. An Internet cafй, school or university lab has 100 machines with known MAC addresses.
The nightly deployment of the initial standard image on these machines is needed.
1.4.3 Deployment to any ready machines (event-driven
deployment)
You can set up deployment to start when a specific number of any machines become ready. Unlike
deployment to specific machines (p. 8), this way of deployment does not require knowing the MAC
addresses of the machines.
The software counts how many machines have connected to the deployment server and starts
deployment when the number of machines you specified (for example, 10) is connected.
This way of deployment is also called event-driven deployment or deployment upon an event.
You can specify a time-out period. After the time-out, deployment will start on the machines that are
ready despite the fact that the predefined number is not reached.
Scenario
Your organization receives 100 machines from a manufacturer. You want to deploy the operating
system and programs to all these machines at once.
1. You set up a deployment operation that waits until any 100 machines are ready.
2. You boot each machine into the Acronis environment, by using either Acronis bootable media or
Acronis PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) Server.
3. Acronis Snap Deploy 5 uses multicasting to perform the deployment to all machines at once.
1.4.4 Stand-alone deployment
The administrator might need to perform deployment to a machine that is isolated from a network
or is included in a network without an Acronis Snap Deploy 5 infrastructure (such as the deployment
server or the license server). A dedicated bootable utility enables a fully-functional deployment with
the graphical user interface on a stand-alone machine.