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Hello :)

 

I have 5 PCs with identical hardware. I already setup windows on one of them along with all the software I need. 

What I need to do next is to capture the system image of this one PC and deploy it on the other 4.
I've been doing one-by-one for the past 2 years and I had enough.

Also, there are a few things I should clarify:

  1. Those are render slaves, so none of them have peripherals. They only have LAN and power cables attached to them.
    It's not really a problem to attach peripherals once in a while, but doing it 5 times in the middle of production when deadlines are tight will be a nightmare. 
  2. They don't have AMT or vPro. I couldn't find a mini-itx Q170 motherboard when I assembled them.
  3. I don't want to remove myself from my comfy chair more than I should.
  4. I believe that in the year 2018 there is a solution for not doing everything manually.

So could you please help me with that?

I already tried Acronis Snap Deploy, but it turns out it can't create a system image without installing the software on the render slaves.

 

-edit-

And One more thing - each one of them needs a unique name on the network.

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very interested in this too. anybody knows?

Primary System

  • CPU
    Ryzen R6 5700X
  • Motherboard
    MSI B350M mortar arctic
  • RAM
    32GB Corsair RGB 3600MT/s CAS18
  • GPU
    Zotac RTX 3070 OC
  • Case
    kind of a mess
  • Storage
    WD black NVMe SSD 500GB & 1TB samsung Sata ssd & x 1TB WD blue & x 3TB Seagate
  • PSU
    corsair RM750X white
  • Display(s)
    1440p 21:9 100Hz
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