Ghost Images

[danrhodes]

Hi,

Just a random discussion about Ghost Images.....

 

 

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images?

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?

 

Any body else got any more questions too add?

 

D

[linkazoid]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? 20gb with z9 compression

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? On our Application Server on a TB Raid

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? Usually every Summer, Depending if department request any additional software.

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? Basic image of Each model (XP, Office, Common Apps) Each Department has same model

 

Mike

[EvLPhenom]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?25GB i think

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? On a network share currently held on a buffalo terastation

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?Usually every summer

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?Yes unfortunately for me

 

As said before i have a basic build for each model and then a build with all curriculum software, this year however i am creating images for departmental areas, so this will hopefully cut down the size of the images.

[tmcd35]

Hi,

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?

 

Largest I've seen is about 8Gb.

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images?

On a separate hard drive in the Imaging Server.

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?

Updates deployed by WSUS and software via MSI in GPO. Most of our images are Windows + Drivers only, so no more than say 2Gb in size. Currently building a new imaging server based around RIS and Clonezilla so most images will get updated over the next term. Ordinarily images are created once when we get a new model in.

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?

Because software is rolled out via GPO, we just have one image per model. Last place did 'per model per department'.

[danrhodes]

I know I should have put this info in my first post but its still early.

 

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?28GB with Fast compression

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images?Currently on a network share but looking into a linux openfiler box

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?I like to keep my images up to date and ready to go whenever i need them, saves me installing the software after ghosting

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?We have an image for each model and also images for departments.

[Jed]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? 12GB

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? stored on a server running raid 5. These are backed up once a week to a backup server running raid in a seperate location.

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? as much as possible, normally if we have a PC in for a fix, we clean it up, run updates and take an image

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?We have an image for each model of PC and special images for departments that are slightly different, for example our Finance department has a build with FMS installed. In general if we distribute a piece of deparment specific software we try and take an image asap.

 

A note to be aware of is if you are going to sysprep images, don't do it more than three times otherwise the images get unstable. Where you can, create a new build.

 

Hope this helps.

Edited January 21, 2009 by Jed

[JJonas]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? 43Gb but most images are a lot smaller

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? NAS

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? We update but usually only the secirity updates

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? bit of both but mostly model of pc. We go to room level for custom builds eg music room

[Griffo]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? 4gb

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? Everywhere! One copy on a partition of each PC, one on the apps server and another on a external HDD

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? Summer or when service packs/major updates are released

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? We have 2 or 3 common models accross the school, so there is a basic XP image for each model, the software is deployed as a GP through AD when the PC joins the domain and is added to a group for each specific department

[IanT]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? 10GB

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? On our 2TB External Drive connected to our IBM xServe

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? When I get a chance.

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? Some

[accura2000]

My biggest is 48 gig, its for our pupils laptops, store all my images on external USB harddrives and keep a backup on the NAS drive.

 

God it would be a nightmare if i never had ghost.

[danrhodes]

I concur with this, how much of a Bi*ch would life be without Ghost!

 

D

[powdarrmonkey]

Hi,

Just a random discussion about Ghost Images.....

 

 

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?

 

About 2.5GB compressed.

 

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images?

 

Virtual server

 

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?

 

No, I roll updates dynamically during deployment if imaging, or day-to-day by normal means. Once a year I'll consolidate them into the image.

 

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?

 

No, I dynamically load the right drivers, settings and software for each type of machine during deployment. One image for all. I pre-stage the machine in Active Directory, boot off PXE and leave it for an hour, and it does every deployment stage and then boots ready for use. Don't even have to name it

Edited January 21, 2009 by powdarrmonkey

[imiddleton25]

Largest 24gb

stored on SAN (2TB)

 

Different image for each hardware type

 

Update software and updates every holiday

[somabc]

We do not generally use ghost for software deployment, we do use it for backing up client machines (if necessary). Images are kept for up to 30 days.

 

So Largest Image - depends on HD ~200GB

 

Stored on Ghost File Server with a few TB's of storage.

[User3204]

I run the older Driver Image (or Image Centre), which became Ghost, when Symantec bought them.

 

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image?

 

10gb, and I was worrying that this was getting too large, the most of them are around 5gb. The large one has Pro D, Pro E and Adobe Photoshop / Premiere.

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images?

 

On the server running the Driveimage, the disk is about 200gb

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available?

Yeach, we do them all over summer, but we usually update them at additional times during the year.

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image?

We build a basic image per system build, and then cplit this into room based ones, staff ones, and general student use ones. We install most software everywhere, there's only a few software that isn't a full site license.

[mattx]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? - About 5ft 4in

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? - Under the stairs

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? - About half past nine.

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? You deaf ? I said about half past nine.

 

Any body else got any more questions too add? What is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow ?

 

 

 

 

Here is my Ghost Image:

Edited January 21, 2009 by mattx

[danrhodes]

Good one Matt, well though out!

 

D

[bgarston]

What is the size of your largest Ghost Image? Less than 1gb with Full Compression

 

Where do you keep your Ghost Images? On our "CDROMS Server" (Dell PowerEdge 2900) on the RAID 5 "Data" array

 

Do you periodically Update your images with all the Updates and Software available? No. We have WSUS for this and all our application software is strictly deployed via GPO or run centrally from our "CDROMS Server".

 

Do you have an image for each model PC or for Each Room/Department with the relevant software on the image? Just a basic Syspreped image of a Windows XP SP3 install with Device Drivers installed for each model.

 

Cheers Ben

Edited January 21, 2009 by bgarston

[nbauer]

I read that a number of people are spending way too much time updating and deploying multiple images. If you would like to save substantial time and money on imaging, look at Universal Imaging Utility. Works best with Ghost (but any other cloning software as well) and creates one hardware-independent image that is easily deployable across your entire environment. Universal Imaging Utility | Big Bang LLC

Immediate ROI and sanity savings.

 

 

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