Machines Restart Themselves When Trying to Deploy
Hello,
I am having an issue when trying to deploy an image to multiple machines at the same time. I have 10 machines hooked up to a switch in multicast mode. Once all of the devices are ready, I create a task to deploy a small 8gb image to the machines.
When I do this, All but 1 machine will restart itself and go back into the Acronis Boot Menu on the PXE server. I have enabled the option to wait until all machines are ready. I am running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.
What I don't understand is why the machines are restarting? Why is the Acronis software restarting them? Why does 1 machine go through the typical deploy, while the others fail?
Any ideas?

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I have run into this issue while deploying to a few Optiplex 740 machines, exactly as you described. I second Anton's suggestion of switching to Unicast (still not even sure what the point is of Multicast, as it just floods the whole network). I'm not sure exactly what I changed, but go over your deployment settings. I think that it may have occured for me due to a bug with deployment tasks and the template switching back to Multicast. To work around it, create a new template and only create one deployment task with it. Confusing, I know...I am going to make a new post about this annoying bug.
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