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  • 1.  Pushing and Pulling an Image across the network Using Ghost Suite 2.0

    Posted Jun 26, 2007 01:32 PM
    I work for a local college and im charge of cloning and setting up the labs. I started to use the Ghost solution suite 2.0 more and more for deployment of images, but what i have ran into it is that when i push or pull an image across the network it basically puts the entire network to a crawl at which time i usually get a call from the network admin screaming what are you doing to the network. 
     
    My questions are how can i push or pull an image from a lab to a new set of machines say 15-25 machines without killing the network, I would like to also do the same to autoinstall software packages, Do i need to set the network transfer protocol to unicast,multicast or directional? will that help any ?
     
     
    thanks
    Mike
     
     


  • 2.  RE: Pushing and Pulling an Image across the network Using Ghost Suite 2.0

    Posted Jun 26, 2007 02:05 PM
    To the first part of your question:
     
    In the task under the "Network" tab you can change the throughput speed of your sessions"  You need to check "Data Throughput Limit" and then set a value for it like 50 or 100MB/min.  You will have to expirment to see what keeps the network admin off your back.
     
    I dont use their autoinstaller so perhaps someone else can help you with that.


  • 3.  RE: Pushing and Pulling an Image across the network Using Ghost Suite 2.0

    Posted Jun 27, 2007 11:27 AM

    I decided to call tech support and the agent told me to use the unicast and would limit the bandwidth traffic which it did tremedously, but the problem now is that i am pushing an image to 25 other machines and its going to take 9 hrs and the image is only 14 gigs, is there something else i can do that will speed this up without causing the bandwidth chatter throughout the network that was causing the initial slowdowns?

     

     

    thanks Again

     

    Mike

     



  • 4.  RE: Pushing and Pulling an Image across the network Using Ghost Suite 2.0

    Posted Jun 28, 2007 06:05 AM
    I used to have that problem. Even when unicasting the network turned into rush our traffic.
     
    The problem disappeared as magic when I replaced an 802.11b (Lucent/HP) wireless access point with a simple one from D-Link (no I did not have any GSS clients on the WLAN). I don't necessarily mean that you should remove all WLAN stuff but there might be other (old?) network gear that are poor in handling these "floods".