[SunHELP] Ghost Imagecast

[Fletcher, Joe]

Having watched HP's Business Recovery services demo, given a properly
constructed network
broadcast images needn't be a problem. I watched a room with 120 PC's
rebuilt from scratch using a
Ghost image broadcast off a server over 100FD links. Rebuild time from start
to finish (all machines loaded, customised and ready to rock) was under 5
mins. It's one of the few times I think I've seen a fully switched network
actually stressed to anything like it's potential.

-----Original Message-----
From: dhansen at zebra.net [mailto:dhansen at zebra.net]
Sent: 3 July 2001 15:56
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ghost Imagecast


> BTW.... Ghost (and maybe Imagecast) will clobber a network with broadcast
> traffic. This means devices not participating in the replication will be
> brought to their knees, so be carefull.

 They use multicasting. And I've never had my networks
disrupted using either one (going over hubs or switches)
of those products. You may want to investigate what is
really bringing your devices down.

 -david

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