Acronis acronis snap deploy 3 Manuel

 

                                                                                                                    

 

 

Acronis PXE Server allows the network booting of the Acronis Snap Deploy Agent, Acronis Master 

Image Creator or Preinstallation Environment on target computers. Using Acronis PXE Server 

considerably reduces the time required for booting the computers as compared to using bootable 
media. It also eliminates the need to have a technician onsite to install the bootable media into the 

system that must be booted. This allows for unattended scheduled deployment. 

 

Using Acronis PXE Server makes sense if there is a Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server in 

your network, so that the booting computers can automatically get IP addresses. Without DHCP, you 
cannot boot computers from PXE. 

 

We recommend that you have only one PXE server within a subnet to ensure predictability of the 

booting computers behavior. 

 

 

To install Acronis PXE Server: 

1.  Run the Acronis Snap Deploy setup program 

2.  Click Install Acronis PXE Server  

3.  Follow the on screen Install Wizard instructions.  

 
Acronis PXE Server runs as a service immediately after installation. Later on it will automatically launch 

at each system restart. You can stop and start this program in the same way as other services. 

 

 

For bare metal, it is enough that the machine’s BIOS supports network booting.  
 

On a machine that has an operating system on the hard disk, the BIOS must be configured so that the 

network interface card is either the first boot device, or at least prior the Hard Drive device. The 

example below shows one of reasonable BIOS configurations. If you don’t insert bootable media, the 

computer will boot from the network.