Stand-alone deployment is deployment to a machine that is isolated from the network or included in a network without Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure (to be exact, without Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server). Stand-alone deployment is performed locally by using the bootable component called Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility.
Note: Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility can be placed on a physical media only. This component is not designed to boot from a PXE server or from a WinPE-based bootable media.
The Acronis stand-alone components to be placed on the bootable media
Configure the master system.
Boot the master system into Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator. Create an image of the master system and save it to a network folder, detachable media, or removable media. You should not save the image to an internal hard disk of the target machine, because it cannot be accessed during the stand-alone deployment.
Boot the target machine into Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility.
If you saved the master image to a media, attach or insert the media.
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utilitycan deploy an image located:
In a network folder.
On a USB or FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage device (such as a flash drive) attached to the target machine.
On DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, or recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R, BD-RE) loaded in the target machine’s media drive.
The image created on removable media has to fit into one media disk. To deploy an image spread over several CDs, DVDs or other media, copy all parts of the image to the same folder on an external drive or to a network folder.
Configure the deployment operation as described in “Creating a deployment template”. Note that the template cannot be saved because the stand-alone utility does not access Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server.
Review the deployment settings, and then start the stand-alone deployment.
