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

[Gene Anderson]

"Shawn Surma" <Shawn_Surma at liverpool.k12.ny.us> writes:
>>> 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.

I've seen the exact same performance with a 100MB network using an
XserveG5. I had wondered if I needed to upgrade my network to Gigabit to
boost my performance.

 Is anyone imaging via NetBoot on GigE?



Gene Anderson
Systems Analyst, Microsoft Certified Professional
Pembina Hills Regional Division No.7
Phone: (780) 674-8535 ext 6860
email: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca

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