Acronis acronis snap deploy 3 User Guide

 

                                                                                                                      

 

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. 
 

 
In some BIOS versions, you have to save changes to BIOS after enabling the network interface card 
so that the card appears in the list of boot devices. 
 
If the hardware has multiple network interface cards, make sure that the card supported by the BIOS 
has the network cable plugged in. 
 

 

If Acronis PXE Server and the DHCP server are on the same computer, add to the DHCP server 

option 60: “Client Identifier” with string value “PXE Client”.  This can be done as follows: 

C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh 
netsh>dhcp 
netsh>dhcp>server \\<server_machine_name> or <IP address> 
netsh dhcp>add optiondef 60 PXEClient STRING 0 comment=”Option added for 
PXE support” 
netsh dhcp>set optionvalue 60 STRING PXEClient