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we are on a HPe network with 1G to every desktop.  when our end user group images a lab with rdeploy multicasting to 20 machines the speeds flucuate from 100 to 0 MB/s.  the size of their images range for 20G - 100+G.

our switch environment is setup on vlans and ip igmp is enabled.  When we unicast we get speeds of 800 and up...

we are wondering if anyone on a HPe switching environment uses Altiris and is getting good speeds.  we are also curious about realistics expectations for multicasting speeds out to 20+ machines. 

thanks everyone

Fred,

Typically a 20G image would take anywhere from 15-30 minutes. I do not have experience with the HPe switching environment, but would recommend checking out the below article on GhostCast.

How Ghost Multicasting communicates over the network

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH106806.html