- Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is the
industry’s most widely used enterprise
imaging and deployment solution with
ease-of-use for managing the entire PC
lifecycle, including OS deployment with
- hardware-independent imaging, software
distribution, easy migration of user
settings and profiles, and secure PC
retirement.
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Key Features
Industry leading hardware independent imaging
• DeployAnywhere™ technology inserts
hardware drivers at the appropriate time during
imaging to support a large variety of hardware
configurations
• Creates file-based images of any
FAT, NTFS, EXT2, and EXT3 file systems
• Supports logical volumes on
Windows and Linux
• Facilitates easy image exploration
and extraction of individual files in file-based
images, while also allowing the addition, deletion,
or modification of any file within any FAT-based
image
• Enables sector-based imaging with
SmartSector Technology for creating an exact and
efficient image of a system that can be used for
rapid OS deployment or system recovery
• Hot imaging creates base images
from a live system to ensure that the most
up-to-date image is deployed every time
• Image compression saves valuable
disk and network space, while significantly reducing
the time required to create and restore images over
a network
• Support for additional image
files, such as VMware VMDK, Symantec Backup Exec
System Recovery V2I, and PowerQuest PQI images
Windows and PC migration
• Symantec™ AutoInstall reduces the
time and cost of managing software distribution
across a network by providing an efficient means of
installing application packages and updates.
• Custom templates expedite the
overall migration process
• Access rights and transport
encryption prevent unauthorized access, providing
secure transfer and storage of user data.
• Web-based self-service tool for
user migrations simplifies implementation,
maintenance, and user-based operations
• Client staging area minimizes
network storage and bandwidth issues
Systems management
• Hardware and software inventory
capabilities provide administrators with client
machine details that allow them to more effectively
manage their image and software deployment,
including the ability to design provisioning tasks
based on specific client attributes
• Client staging area preserves
contents during a cloningor restore to ensure an
original state “onboard” recovery solution for every
PC, thereby helping to minimize disruption of user
productivity
• Multicast file transfers allow
administrators to send and execute critical
security-related “hot fixes” to multiple recipients
simultaneously
• A centralized management console
increases IT productivity and helps lower the total
cost of ownership (TCO) for networked PCs and
workstations
• New recovery kit allows VARs and
system integrators to provision an onboard boot
environment—eliminating the need to provide bootable
media to initiate a recovery process—so the image
and recovery environment can now be booted by
pressing a function key
• The ability to create detailed
reports from fully customizable filters and views
gives administrators easy access to the information
they need
• Easily create bootable CD-ROMs and
USB Flash ROMs for increased flexibility
• Universal network driver allows IT
staff to create a single Boot Disk for every PC on
their network—regardless of different network cards
PC and data disposal
• GDisk utility ensures that
confidential data cannot be recovered from recycled,
retired, or leased PCs by using secure disk wiping
in accordance with U.S. DoD requirements
• GDisk 32 provides secure disk
wiping from Windows PE
• Includes FAT file system
formatting, batch mode operation, hiding/unhiding of
partitions, and extensive partition reporting
Key Benefits
Reduces deployment costs, complexity, and time
• Helps ensure that workstations remain
consistent and compliant with corporate
standards from acquisition to disposal
• Simplifies image management and reduces the
number of images needed for deployment by using
DeployAnywhere™ technology to deploy hardware
independent images
• Enables administrators to keep images from
becoming “stale” by using hot imaging on a
continually updated base machine and by using
flexible image management options
• Simultaneously deploys hundreds of Windows® or
Linux® client systems across the
enterprise in a matter of minutes
• Provides image multicasting to minimize
bandwidth usage and speed the deployment of new
images
• Allows administrators to configure and schedule
tasks from a centralized console, including rolling
out software, upgrading operating systems, executing
commands remotely, and targeting
computers based on specific hardware and software
attributes
• Enables the use of the Microsoft® Windows
Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) and
Linux to accelerate and automate Windows and
Linux deployments.
• Provides administrators with flexible image
options by the ability to deploy
VMware (VMDK),
Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery (V2I), and
PowerQuest (PQI) hard disk images
Decreases downtime, risk, and
cost of user migrations
• Allows administrators to
perform fully managed client-driven migrations,
simplifying implementation, maintenance, and
user-based operations, as well as reducing the
cost and risk associated with client migration
• Preserves user data and
personality settings, minimizing post-migration
support costs, disruptions, and end-user
downtime
• Allows administrators to set
policies that restrict users from adding
unauthorized files to the migration package
Facilitates secure PC retirement
• Reduces the risk and liability
associated with PC retirement and data disposal
by implementing best practice strategies for PC
retirement and data disposal
• Ensures that confidential data
cannot be recovered from recycled, retired, or
leased PCs
• Meets the highest industry
standards for secure data disposal, including
Department of Defense (DoD) standards.
New Features
The industry's most widely-used corporate
imaging, deployment and management solution
includes easy-to-use imaging and deployment,
OS and user data and settings migration,
software distribution, hardware and software
inventory, and secure system retirement.
- DeployAnywhere technology
reduces disk image proliferation and
maintenance through hardware independent
imaging that automatically detects and
injects drivers which match your target
hardware configuration.
- Hot imaging
automatically refreshes images from a live
reference machine prior to deploying the
image thereby reducing the risk of stale,
out-of-date images. Hot imaging also images
directly from a reference machine to an
endpoint without any intermediate image
creation step.
- Logical volume support
decreases imaging time by capturing images
across Windows or Linux logical volumes that
span multiple disks or partitions.
- Support for additional imaging
formats including VMware disk image
format (VMDK), Symantec Backup Exec System
Recovery (BESR), and PowerQuest (PQi).
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Are you still
migrate PC, either
hardware or
software, manually?
Migrate PC manually
is not just
time-consuming,
labor-intensive, but
also unreliable.
Ghost Solution Suite
2.0 enables IT
Department to
recognize up to a 90
percent reduction in
time and budget in
comparison to
deploying and
migrating Windows
systems manually.
Ghost Solution Suite
2.0 delivers the
tools administrators
need to easily
deploy or restore a
base state of an
operating image or
application onto a
PC in just minutes.
Ghost Solution Suite
2.0 enhances and
leverages Vista
deployment and
installation by
allowing IT
administrators the
ability to customize
a standard operating
environment and
create a single
image file that can
be deployed to
multiple machine
types and hundreds
of machines
simultaneously. This
reduces the need to
maintain multiple
image files and
allows IT
administrators to
keep image files
current and up to
date without the
need to create
multiple image file
revisions.
User migration
capabilities enable
fast and easy
migration of data,
application settings
and Windows
configuration
settings for
individual users
during a new
operating system
deployment. This
minimizes the impact
of computer or
operating system
changes and
therefore minimizes
disruption to end
users.
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Single-step
imaging and the
reduced need for
large baseline
images during a
migration will
drive faster
recovery tasks
and speedier
data migration
projects. This
feature combined
with the broader
choice of
drivers and
multiple OS
platforms, and
topped off with
support for
Windows Vista,
should prove to
be a very
compelling
proposition.
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With Ghost
Solution Suite
2.0, migrating
end user systems
is simplified
with integrated
user migration
functionality
and a
peer-to-peer
migration
wizard.
Administrators
can now
configure a task
to create a
backup image,
capture the user
data and
settings, deploy
a new operating
system, perform
post-clone
configuration,
and restore user
data and
settings.
Additionally,
the
administrator
can easily
utilize other
features of
Ghost Solution
Suite to further
streamline the
operation,
including using
the multicast
file transfer
with network
bandwidth
management.
In order to save
critical man hours
and IT budget, organizations
will require the
ability to customize
the Vista OS to
include their
company's corporate
applications and
security
configuration
settings, so newly
provisioned machines
will comply with
corporate standards
and make it easier
for IT departments
to manage their
Windows
environment.”
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