I think Ghost v9.0 is NOT good for production purposes -- Yet !
Please go to the News Group -- symantec.customerservice.general
And read the threads for the past 2 months. There are *many* posts about problems with
Ghost v9.0.
Stick with v7.x or v8 if you can. V8.0 is less than or about 1 year old and it does
multicast.
Just to inform the readers of this thread, Multicast IP is used by Enterprise Ghost such
that you can restore an image to multiple platforms at the same time. So in Jeff's example,
he could create an image of one Dell PC that was sysprep'd and then store it on his Ghost
Server then subsequently restore that image to the remaining 23 platforms at the same time
( assuming all 24 are the same model such as Dell GX270 ).
Dave
| Well, that's kinda what I understood.. Need to tell Dell we need vol
| licenses and sysprep should work fine..
|
| We're probably going to be using Ghost 9.. Don't know the full info as
| of yet.. I'm going to be starting a new job in two weeks and one of my
| first projects when I get there is to clone 24 new systems and swap them
| out with existing systems.. The new systems will be part of a 2000
| domain and be running XP Pro..
|
| We were unsure of multicast ghosting since noone has really done it yet
| and not sure what version of Ghost they'll be using..
|
| David H. Lipman wrote:
| > You would need vol. license or Client Access License (CAL) with the Server OS.
| >
| > How are you cloning the platforms ?
| >
| > I use Symantec Ghost Enterprise v7.0/8.0
| > I do it using multicast TCP/IP, a Ghost Boot Disk in the source/destination PC and a PC
| > dedicated for storing/pushing Ghost images all connected via 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet
switch.
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | Hello,
| > | Just want to verify something. We would like to setup a "gold" system
| > | to clone to 24 other systems running WinXP. They're coming from Dell,
| > | and I would assume they will come with the standard OEM versions.
| > | In order to to use RISPREP/SYSPREP and have it work with multiple
| > | systems, volume licensing or the corp version of XP will be needed, correct?
| > |
| > | Thanks..
| >
| >
