Deployment through a deployment task
By using a deployment task, you can perform deployment in either of these ways:
- Deployment to a specified list of machines. Acronis Snap Deploy 6 will use the Wake-on-LAN functionality to wake up the machines that are turned off and thus are not ready for deployment.
- Deployment as soon as a specified number of any machines become ready for deployment. You (or users in your organization) will need to make the machines ready.
A machine becomes ready for deployment after it boots into an agent from a bootable media or a PXE server, and then connects to OS Deploy Server.
If the machine does not boot into the agent and the machine has Secure Boot enabled, we recommend disabling Secure Boot on this machine as a workaround.
In addition, you can run any deployment task manually from the Deployment tasks view.
A deployment task runs according to a deployment template. When creating the task, you can create a deployment template or specify an existing one.