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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .......................................................................................... 7
1.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .................................................................................................................... 7
1.1.2 Who needs Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .............................................................................................................. 7
1.1.3 Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure .......................................................................................................... 7
1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ........................................................................... 7
1.2.1 Taking an image of the master system ........................................................................................................ 8
1.2.2 Deployment to specific machines (immediate, manual, and scheduled deployment) ............................. 8
1.2.3 Deployment to any ready machines (event-driven deployment) .............................................................. 9
1.2.4 Stand-alone deployment .............................................................................................................................. 9
1.2.5 Deployment with individual deployment settings ...................................................................................... 9
1.2.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment) ....................................................................................10
1.2.7 Deployment of a disk volume and MBR ....................................................................................................10
1.2.8 Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE .....................................................................................11
1.3 Features of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ..........................................................................................11
1.3.1 New: Support for UEFI ................................................................................................................................11
1.3.2 New: Support for Windows 8.....................................................................................................................11
1.3.3 New: List of machines ................................................................................................................................12
1.3.4 New: List of deployment tasks ...................................................................................................................12
1.3.5 New: Per-deployment licensing .................................................................................................................12
1.3.6 New: Support for the VHD format .............................................................................................................12
1.3.7 New: Graphical user interface in WinPE ....................................................................................................13
1.3.8 New: E-mail notifications about deployment ............................................................................................13
1.3.9 New: Compatibility with Acronis True Image, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, and Acronis Backup &
Recovery 11 backups ..............................................................................................................................13
1.3.10 New: Support for multiple network adapters ...........................................................................................13
1.3.11 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling .....................................................................................14
1.3.12 New: Falling back to unicast .......................................................................................................................14
1.3.13 Encrypted communication .........................................................................................................................14
1.3.14 Password protection ..................................................................................................................................14
1.4 Supported operating systems for imaging and deployment ...................................................15
1.5 Licensing policy ........................................................................................................................16
1.5.1 Machine licenses and deployment licenses ..............................................................................................16
1.5.2 Server licenses and workstation licenses ..................................................................................................17
1.5.3 Licenses for Acronis Universal Deploy .......................................................................................................17
1.5.4 Trial version of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ......................................................................................................17
1.6 Upgrading to Acronis Snap Deploy 4 .......................................................................................18
1.6.1 Upgrading licenses ......................................................................................................................................18
1.6.2 Upgrading components ..............................................................................................................................18
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................19
2 Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ................................................................................... 20
2.1 Terminology .............................................................................................................................20
2.2 Components .............................................................................................................................21
2.3 Support for file systems and storage media ............................................................................22
2.3.1 Supported file systems ...............................................................................................................................22
2.3.2 Supported media ........................................................................................................................................22
2.4 Supported types of disk and firmware interface .....................................................................23
