Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
The industry’s most widely used corporate imaging and deployment solution, Symantec™ Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 is a proven, trusted, and affordable solution for the imaging and management of Windows® and Linux® systems.
Key Features:
- Support for Microsoft Windows Vista and 64-Bit OS's.
- Built-in Vista inventory filters for identification and targeting of 'Vista ready' machines.
- DeployAnywhere™ technology for creating hardware-independent images.
- Single centralized management console for management of all migration tasks.
- Hardware and software inventory for efficiently managing image and software deployments.
Key Benefits:
- Enhance and leverage Microsoft's own best practices for Vista migration.
- Simplify image management by creating fewer images.
- Multicast accelerates deployments and reduces overall network traffic.
- Accelerated imaging compared to standard OS tools using market proven technology.
- Recognize significant cost and time savings when imaging, deploying, migrating, and managing systems.
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- Centrally manage the deployment of hundreds of Windows or Linux operating systems across the enterprise in a matter of minutes, including Microsoft Vista.
- Hardware and software inventory allows administrators to more effectively manage image and software deployments.
- Preserves files and folders during an image deployment to ensure an original state "onboard" recovery solution for every PC.
- Meets the highest industry standards for secure data disposal, including Department of Defense (DoD) standard DoD 5220.22-M.
- Recognize significant savings in time and budget when deploying, migrating, and managing systems.
- Minimize Help Desk overhead by automating repeatable IT management tasks.
- Helps promote a consistent and well managed environment.
- Can be used an affordable stand alone management solution for small to mid-sized organizations or complementary to larger systems management frameworks within an enterprise.
The minimum hardware and software requirements to run Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 vary according to the components you choose to install.
Client
- 133 MHz Intel Pentium
- 32 MB RAM
- 6 MB Disk Space
- Available disk space to equal twice the size of the largest file to be migrated on the C: drive when restoring a package
- Windows 95b, 98 SE, NT 4.0 (SP4), 2000 Professional (sp1), XP Professional, XP Tablet PC Edition, or Vista (Windows ME and XP Home Edition not supported)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 (SP1) or higher
Server
- Pentium III or higher processor
- 512 MB RAM
- 10/100 - MBPS NIC
- CD-ROM drive
- The amount of disk space required depends on the number of planned client migrations and average package size
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server SP3, Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard/Enterprise, Windows XP Professional SP2
- Internet or intranet connection
Console
- 400 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU
- 64 MB RAM
- VGA monitor, 800 x 600 screen resolution
- Windows 2000 Professional/Server SP4, Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2008, or Vista
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 or higher
- Network access