Cost and time effective centralized deployment to bare-metal, dissimilar, and virtual hardware

• Upgrade an entire organization to the latest OS
• Add new clients while the deployment session is running
• Schedule deployment for educational facilities

Facts

High-performance deployment All machines across the network are processed at the same time via multicasting and can be switched to uni- or constant-casting when more efficient.

Various options Remote or on-site, manual or fully-automated, scheduled, cyclic client- or server-driven deployments.

Getting deployment-ready Prepare target machines for deployment by starting them up from custom bootable media or via the network.

Post-deployment customization Specific client hardware adoption, e.g. storage and NIC drivers injection. The Paragon post-configuration scripting to create an optimal working environment for end user.

General deployment

• Master imaging of disks, possibility to exclude redundant data during the process.
• Central deployment console to initiate, manage, and supervise all sessions from a single location.
• Initiate deployment directly from the target PC. Clients will be able to connect to a required multicast session at any time.
• Prepare a bootable flash stick or a PXE image to get a client computer ready for deployment and/or create a master image.

Remote deployment

• Simultaneous deployment of multiple machine groups with different system images or settings
  • automatic sessions
  • ID-based sessions
  • MAC address-based sessions.
• Schedule a deployment session to launch it on a regular basis.

Master imaging

• Zero-install imaging, pVHD format support.
• Back up changes made after the full or latest incremental image – the most efficient way of updating master images.
• Central image storage allows to avoid unauthorized use.
• Access the backup images of entire hard disks to retrieve necessary information.