Ghost Solution Suite

Greetings,

Our company recently purchased a large number of Optiplex 390 desktops to replace our older line of GX280, GX620, and 745's. The old machines were pulled out and the new 390's went in their places.

We created new base image(s) for the 390 installed Ghost Client, all Windows drivers.

Prior to deploying we added the WinPE driver for Ghost. When trying to deply the image to 15 computer the speed is horrible, roughly 70mb/min, making hours to deply the image. We are currently using the Vista driver found on Dell's site, deploying the image via WinPE from Console.

I found that when Unicasting the speeds are normal, ~600mb/min on displayed on console. As soon as you ghost 2 or more computers the speed drops drastically. The switch where this computer connect is a Dell PowerConnect 2724, a gigabit switch currently set to un-managed mode.

The old GX280 were acheiving faster speeds than the brand new 390 with Gig NIC's.

I tried drivers from Realtek that were released 9.19.2011 which brought the speed down even lower to 15 - 20mb/min. Tried putting a different un-managed switch in the room with no luck.

Any help is appreciated. Anyone else having this problem?

Server and Client are in a same Network with same subnet mask?

To give you more background this is similar to a school / classroom setting.

The ghost server is a Dell PowerEdge T310 configured for 15 VLAN's. The server connects to a "backbone" switch, Dell PowerConnect 2824, configured for VLAN's. Server is running Windows 2008 R2, GSS 2.5  Ver.2266

The server has 15 Virtual NIC's setup

ex. Virtual NIC Room 1 IP 192.168.rm#.1 SM 255.255.255.0

Optiplex 390 IP -- 192.168.rm#.100-150 SM 255.225.255.0 DG 192.168.rm#.1

From the backbone switch there is a connection to the individual classroom unmanged switches;

port 1 connects to room 1 switch

port 2 connects to room 2 switch

port 3 connects to room 3 switch and so on. 

15 rooms all together, each room has an unmanaged switch in the room itself.

The rooms with the 390's are the only rooms having slow speeds. I logged on to the backbone switch made sure Spanning Tree is disabled, broadcast storm is disabled, Multicast Support enabled, IGMP snooping is enabled, and bridge Multicast is set to Dynamic.

PXE has been setup by following this guide

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/one-pxe-menu-unite-them-all-dos-linux-winpe

Try using PC-DOS as Pre-OS with Universal Driver packet