DeployStudio Lion - Very Slow

[m1k3r]

Hello,

 

I have recently installed DeployStudio Server onto our OS X Lion server and I am taking a master image from one of our Mac Book Pro's. I am currently using NetBoot to start the DeployStudio Runtime, this is working as expected.

 

My question is how long should it take to pull a master image from the mac book to the server? It is currently showing 500 minutes remaining, this seems a bit too long. What sort of times are you guys getting when taking a master image?

 

I have tried using a tmp folder for the image and also straight to the server however each method reports around 500 minutes to take the image.

 

Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

 

Many thanks,

Mike

[Tsonga]

Hmmmmm, my images take around 2 hours to send back to the server (I actually send them to an ext attached to the server), we do have a 10GB backbone though...

[m1k3r]

Ok, so maybe 8 hours is to be expected from our setup then. I am currently getting between 8-10MB/s upload to the server which is on the other side of the site. I may try imaging one of the iMac's which are connected to the same switch as the server and see if they image any quicker.

 

 

Thanks for your reply.

[Tsonga]

No worries.

 

How much stuff in in the image?

[m1k3r]

The macbook is pretty much a fresh install of Lion, it's really only used for screen sharing from our office to the mac suite.

 

I have started pulling an image from one of the iMac's and it's showing around 40 minutes so I guess it's the connection from the office to the mac suite causing the very slow imaging times.

 

Thanks for your help.

Edited December 13, 2012 by m1k3r

[Carter]

Keep in mind your images are compressed. Once the computer creates a compressed image it will upload to the server. I have gig switches throughout and the upload doesn't take too long, maybe 30-40mins after it has been compressed on the computer. That said my main image is 98GB's and once compressed it is around 69GB. I can image one computer with this 98GB image in about 20mins but a lab will take a good evening once the server hits it's peak bandwidth output at around 65-70MB/sec.