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Re: Imaging Public Labs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Olson)
Tue Dec 4 17:43:39 2001
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:26:00 -0600
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From: Andrew Olson <olsonand@MARTIN.LUTHER.EDU>
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Lindsay,
Here at Luther, we have been using Ghost and Ghost Multicasting in our labs
for a couple of years. We use Ghost in combination with a laptop and large
firewire hard drive to recover single workstations and multicasting to
reimage whole labs in bulk when there are changes to the
image. Multicasting works great to take care of a whole lab in one fell
swoop. However, it has large implications on network performance. Quite
simply multicasting gobbles up network bandwidth. A few things that we
have done to get around this problem include . . . imaging at odd hours or
dragging around a couple of switches so that we can create a temporary
network that is removed from the rest of the world. I might suggest a
conversation with your network administrator to see how multicasting will
work within your campus network architecture.
We have also been experimenting with Ghost 7's centralized management
console which will hopefully allow us to reimage lab computers without
having to get up from our seats at the Help Desk. I believe that you could
also do things like scheduling reimaging.
Sorry, no experience with XP here.
Andrew Olson
At 06:06 PM 12/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Here at SUNY Geneseo we are using a combination of Ghost, PCRDist, and
>DeepFreeze to image and lock down our lab machines. However, with the
>ever changing world of Microsoft and their spam of Operating Systems
>we have not come up with a good method of imaging and locking down our
>labs. Currently we are looking for a solution of imaging a lab of XP
>machines.
>
>
>Other questions I have are what do you do about user profiles if
>roaming profiles are not an option? DeepFreeze takes care of this
>problem of overloading a HD with profiles but is only running a beta
>version for 2k and hasn't even offered anything for XP yet.
>
>
>Also, w/o PCRDist to push out image changes we haven't found a time
>efficient method of updating our images. We are looking into Ghost
>Multi-casting if anyone has information on how this working for them
>it would also be helpful.
>
>
>--Lindsay
>
>=====================
>Lindsay Klik
>Student Technology Services Coordinator
>SUNY Geneseo
>Geneseo NY, 14454
>=====================
>585-245-5577
>klik@geneseo.edu
>
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