OS Deployment

Overview

Every company faces increasing challenges for configuring and deploying new PCs and workstations with new operating systems in a distributed environment. Having a deployment solution that enables them to use a standard configuration for all new machines significantly decreases support expenses, including time and cost.

Centralized Management of Deployments

Viewfinity has teamed up with Acronis to offer our customers an award-winning OS deployment product that provides centralized control over the capture, customization and deployment of disk images. Viewfinity OS Deployment reduces IT support and maintenance costs by helping you standardize your entire company on a single or select few operating systems. OS Deployment creates an exact disk image of the standard configuration, including the operating system, configuration files and all applications. With our multicast capabilities, the software then deploys that image to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal installations.

How it Works

OS Deployment for PCs is a comprehensive deployment solution that enables IT organizations to deploy or restore laptops and desktops quickly and easily. OS Deployment Universal is hardware/manufacturer independent so you can automatically provision dissimilar hardware using a single image. With OS Deployment Universal, you can use one image on multiple PCs with different hardware, eliminating the need for hundreds of images.

OS Deployment gives IT support the option to deploy new machines using both the multicast and unicast protocols, providing maximum flexibility and reducing implementation and bandwidth.

Note that this version of the product does not support server operating systems.

Key Benefits

• Ensures that your new systems will boot by allowing you to add drivers and create templates for specific hardware
• New deployment options include Wake-on-LAN, deployment scheduling and a centralized management console to manage deployment tasks
• Facilitates deployment by providing more options for creating bootable media - create ISOs, Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS) packages, and place multiple configurations on one CD
• Deploys both new and older systems using one solution
• Helps administrators to deploy systems even if the network is not accessible
• Maximizes the performance of new machines by allowing partitions to be resized
• Ensures that machines are properly deployed by providing options to reboot or shutdown after the master image is applied
• Creates a PXE more easily by specifying default configurations and timeout parameters for reboot
• Deploys images created with ASD 2.0 and Acronis True Image Echo
• Allows configuration management to perform pre- and post-deployment tasks
• Offers centralized management of deployments across the network
• Affords a simple way for you to deploy new systems with different hardware - a standard configuration image can easily be deployed to identical hardware

Key Features of OS Deployment

• Deploy entire disks images or selected partitions
• Deploy via Network or from CD/DVD
• Wizard-driven GUI for ease of use
• Deployment Scheduling - distributes the master image at a specific point in time
• Acronis Universal Deploy- for deployment to dissimilar hardware from one master build
• Multicasting- for flexible, faster deployments
• Wake-on-LAN- enables after-hours, energy efficient deployment

Not sure which product is best for your needs? View our side-by-side comparison of all features.

OS deployment for PCs

OS Deployment Universal (deployment to dissimilar hardware)

Viewfinity OS Deployment Operations Guide

Viewfinity OS Deployment Brochure