[Casper] Subject: Re: imaging a large group via NetBoot- Casper

[Shawn Surma]

casper at list.jamfsoftware.com writes:
>What's the infrastructure?  switches? servers?
>
>
>On 5/19/08 8:34 AM, "Shawn Surma" <Shawn_Surma at liverpool.k12.ny.us> wrote:
>
>> We are using Casper with a Netboot server and only one Casper server for
>> the packages.  It seems to be taking a very long time to image MacBooks
>> out of the box.  What kind of numbers has anyone else been getting?
>> If I do just 1 or 2 it will complete in about 45 minutes, if I step it
>u p
>> to more than 7 the time goes to over 3 hours. If I add more servers for
>> the packages will that help?
>> 
Sorry I did not elaborate: we are using Cisco switches (only 100 meg not
gig) and all servers are either G5 xServes or in the case of the jss/afp
server intel quad core.

Thanks,
        Shawn


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