| Features |
Benefits |
| General Product Features |
| Disk Imaging |
Make an exact image of the system drive for further cloning |
| Adaptive Deployment |
Use one master image to successfully deploy to different hardware configurations |
| Stand-Alone Deployment |
Deploy a system image to a bare metal PC with the removable media |
| Remote Deployment |
Remotely boot a bare metal PC via LAN and then deploy a system image to it. No user involvement is required on the remote PC |
| Post-Deployment Configuration |
Customize the client disk layout and set up the required Windows settings (PC name, DNS, display, etc.) after the image has been deployed |
| Remote Deployment Console |
Initiate, manage, and supervise all deployment sessions from one place |
| Client-Driven Deployment via Network (ConstantCast) |
Initiate deployment directly from the target PC with no need of the central console. Clients will be able to connect to the required multicast session at any time |
| Object Deployment (Deployment API) |
Make it possible to integrate Multicast together with ConstantCast with any existing deployment techniques including WDS/BDD/ImageX |
| Imaging Features |
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Zero-Install Imaging
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Take an image of a prototype PC with no need to install any imaging software |
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Adaptive Imaging Tools
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Prepare a universal master image for further deployment to various machines |
| Central Image Storage |
It's the most preferable way of storing images. The Infrastructure Server can access it directly with no need of sharing, thus avoiding unauthorized access |
| Image Management |
Create deployment templates, thus minimizing the system deployment time and costs |
| Hard Disk Manager/Drive Backup Integration |
Establish a reliable data protection system or carry out maintenance or upgrade tasks of any complexity |
| Browsable Images |
Get access to backup images of entire hard disks or separate partitions and retrieve information you need |
| Differential Backup |
Archive only changes since the last full image, thus considerably saving the backup image space |
| Synthetic Backup |
Change any property (merge a given differential image with its full image, split/un-split, compress/de-compress, etc.) of an existing image without carrying out a physical backup operation |
| Remote Deployment Features |
| Session-Based Deployment |
Deploy several groups of machines with different system images or settings simultaneously |
| Automatic Sessions |
Deploy a system image to all computers connected to a particular session (computers booted via LAN are automatically connected to this kind of session) |
| ID-Based Sessions |
Deploy a system image only to the computers booted from the media with a specific identifier |
| MAC Address-Based Sessions |
Deploy a system image only to the computers listed as authorized with MAC addresses serving as identifiers |
| Session Scheduling |
Set a timetable for a deployment session to launch it on a regular basis |
| Cyclic Deployment |
Connect a PC to the already running session at any moment and launch deployment just from the current stage. When the session is over it will be automatically re-launched to complete the deployment of this very PC, thus considerably reducing the overall deployment time |
| Multicasting |
Simultaneously transport the same image parts to several remote PCs, thus significantly relieving the network traffic |
| Speed Control Facilities |
Automatically disconnect slow-going or not-responding target machines from the session to keep the highest deployment speed possible |
| Deployment Monitor |
Supervise execution of any deployment session: the operation progress, computers connected to a particular session and their state |
| Integrated Paragon PXE Server |
Remotely boot a bare metal system via the network with no bootable media required |
| Wake-on-LAN Support |
Remotely power on computers to deploy via the network with no bootable media required |
| Hard Disk Manager Features |
| Hard Disk Migration |
Copy an entire hard disk to a hard disk of larger or smaller capacity |
| Partition Cloning |
Copy a specified partition to a block of the free space (the on-disk un-allocated space that is not assigned to any partition) |
| Disk/Partition Automatic Resize |
Automatically expand or schrink partitions according to your needs |
| Incremental Copy |
Copy changes from the moment of the last hard disk copy operation. After performing a comparison between a previous copy of a hard disk and its current state, only sectors that are different will be updated, thus considerably decreasing the amount of data to write |
| Hot Copy |
Process locked partitions and hard disk under Windows NT+ family operating systems providing both high operating efficiency as well as low hardware requirements |
| Auxiliary Deployment Features |
| Boot Media Builder |
Prepare bootable media (CD,DVD) or a PXE image based on Linux/DOS or WinPE 3.0 to get a client computer ready for the deployment procedure |
| Manual Deployment |
Boot a machine from the bootable media and then initiate deployment by using a system image contained on that media or in the remote Image Storage |
| Post Processing Features |
| Microsoft Sysprep |
Automatically send the required sysprep configuration file to a remote PC after the deployment procedure is over |
| Files Update |
Automatically update the required files and .ini entries after the deployment procedure is over |
| Paragon Scripting |
Execute a script made in any Paragon utility to perform the required partitioning or backup operations after the deployment procedure is over |
| Custom Application Run |
Launch any custom application after the deployment procedure is over |