Symantec Ghost Multicast Server

In older versions of Ghost, Ghost does not support running Ghost Multicast Server on a computer that has multiple NICs. To resolve the problem, remove all NICs but one before running Ghost Multicast Server.In newer versions, multiple NICs should work successfully if they are not teamed.If you have multiple NICs and are having connection issues, you will need to test by disabling each of the NICs then testing Ghost.Note: The Console does not decide which NIC to use on the Console, but rather lets the OS select based on availability and therefore determine which NIC does the work at any given moment. The solution is to disable all but one NIC in the Console machine which allows Windows only one choice. An enhancement is already logged to have a setting in the console that will set which NIC to use at any given time.In some cases, turning off the firewall allowed both NICs to be used.Some Vender supplied teaming software can modify the way a teamed NIC environment will function.

In some cases it will improve the situation and in come cases removing the vender supplied software will improve the situation. Both should be tested to find the combination that will work best for the environment until such a time that teaming and multiple nics are supported.-Symantec has acknowledged that the above-mentioned issue is present in the current version(s) of the product(s) mentioned at the end of this article. Symantec is committed to product quality and satisfied customers.There are currently no plans to address this issue by way of a patch or hotfix in the current or previous versions of the software at the present time. This issue may be resolved in a future major revision of the software at a later time. However, this particular issue is not currently scheduled for any release.

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Overall: In the past I worked in a university where classroom PCs needed to be refreshed after every course, that means wiping the drives clean, reinstalling the operating system, drivers, updates, applications, and configuring everything to be the same as the other PCs in the classroom. As you can imagine that process takes several hours to do just 1 PC but with Symantec Ghost I can create a baseline image in a few minutes and push that image to the PCs I want simultaneously and the whole process just takes about 10 minutes (your mileage may vary depending on your network speed, number of PCs, size of image, etc.).Symantec Ghost Solution Suite provides several tools to manage the above tasks such as the Ghost Server, Ghost client boot media, Ghost Explorer to view and edit image files without having to rebuild them. Once you understand the concept of multicasting, the software is pretty straightforward to use: Create an image of your baseline PC, Create bootable CDs, discs, or USB sticks for your client PCs you want to image, start a Ghost multicast session on the Ghost server and give it the image file you want to push, boot the client PCs to the session you created and sit back and watch 10 or 100s of PCs get all their needed software in a few minutes.

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Overall: I have used the Ghost software for only the basics. I used the main software to create the boot discs or USB drives needed to boot a machine and auto-start the Ghost software. Once a computer is booted into Ghost, an complete image of the hard drive may be captured (by volume, by drive, can be spanned over multiple media devices if needed, etc). I often use Ghost to simply verify the integrity of a hard drive. When you boot into the ghost software, you can do a 'disk check' which basically verifies that an image may be accurately acquired. If an image may be acquired, this tells me that the health of the hard drive is reasonable stable.

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Ghost software does far more than just this, but this is the primary function that I use it for.