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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is the industry’s most widely-used corporate imaging, deployment and system management solution. Use Ghost’s proven hardware-independent imaging capabilities to significantly accelerate day-to-day imaging and deployment needs or to migrate all your client systems to the latest operating system including Windows 7 all from a single management console.
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is the industry’s most widely-used system imaging, deployment, and management solution - backed with more than 10 years of industry-leading expertise. Ghost’s worldwide fame stems from its advanced hybrid file/sector-based imaging capabilities, which added to unmatched speed and ease of use make it the de-facto tool for OS deployments and migrations. Besides advanced imaging, Ghost Solution Suite offers software distribution, inventory, secure hardware retirement, and migration of user settings and profiles for the industry’s best-value IT lifecycle management solution.
Documents & Downloads
» Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite 2.5 Data Sheet
» Symantec Licensing Bandings Overview (PDF)
New Features
Hardware Independent Imaging
Virtually every organisation is looking for ways to reduce the number of the disk images it manages. Variations in hardware configurations are a key reason for disk image proliferation, which in turn results in high image maintenance costs and human error. This is why many organisations have aggressive initiatives around image consolidation and even the lofty goal of a single universal image. Removing driver dependencies from disk images is essential to attaining this goal. It allows for a single disk image to be readily retargeted to a wide variety of hardware configurations, granted that the appropriate drivers can be injected into the image at the appropriate time in the deployment process. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 provides tools to automate the detection and injection of drivers that match the target hardware configuration. This hardware independent imaging capability can be used both while imaging physical as well as virtual devices.
Logical Volume Support
In addition to imaging disks and disk partitions, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 now offers support for capturing images based on Logical Volumes, both on Windows and Linux. Increasingly, organisations are taking advantage of the flexibility offered by logical volumes, with the expected result that volumes can now span across multiple disks or disk partitions, located either internal to the machine or in RAID arrays, SANs, etc. With Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 users can create the image from such a volume regardless of its physical distribution.
WinPE Pre-OS
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 is the first version of Ghost to bundle in WinPE. The Ghost boot wizard has been enhanced to automatically create WinPE 2.1 images, providing for a better user experience.
Native Linux Tools
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 introduces support for Linux pre-OS. In conjunction with the existing support for Linux production OS's in Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5, this now enables all-Linux Ghosting.
VMware (VMDK) Images
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 adds support for VMware disk image format (VMDK). Ghost users will now be able to deploy directly to and from VMware disk image, effectively enabling P2V imaging. This will be a welcome feature for customers using virtualisation to consolidate machines or implement remote client solutions, and to customers who first build and fine tune virtual machines and then cloned them throughout their physical environment.
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) (V2i) Images
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 adds support for Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) disk image format (V2i). Users will now be able to use Ghost to restore images created by BESR; this can result in extended deployment capabilities to a BESR implementation.
PowerQuest (PQi) Images
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 adds support for PowerQuest disk image format (PQi). Users will be able to use Ghost to restore images created by PowerQuest.
Native 64-bit cloning tools
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 now offers a 64-bit version of the Ghost tools. This is an important consideration for WinPE 64 users, which doesn’t offer a 32-bit compatibility mode (no WOW64).
System Req.
The minimum hardware and software requirements to run Symantec Ghost Solution Suite vary according to the components you install.
Console
- Pentium III processor
- 1024 x 600 screen resolution
- 512 MB RAM
One of the following:
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate
- Windows Server 2003 Standard/Entperprise SP1
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard/Enerprise
- Windows XP Professional SP2
- Windows 2000 Professional/Server SP4
Configuration Client
- Networked computer with Windows Vista/XP/Me/2000/2003/2008 Professional (Dropped: Win 95/98 and Win NT 4.0, Workstation SP6)
- Running WinPE as the PreOS on the Console client computer a minimum of 256 MB RAM is required