By using a deployment task, you can perform deployment in either of these ways:

• Deployment to a specified list of machines. Acronis Snap Deploy 5 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.
• Or you can run any deployment task manually from the Deployment tasks view.

Do the following to create a deployment task:

1. Start the Acronis Management Console and click Deploy image:

   

2. Select the target machines:

   

3. Make sure the machine will be booted into Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent at the time of deployment:

   

4. You can select an existing deployment template or create a new one:

   

   See also Acronis Snap Deploy 5: Creating Deployment Template.

5. Set when to run the deployment task:

   

6. Set the deployment start condition:

   

7. Review the summary and click Create: