Running Norton Ghost bogs down network apps

[jtvang125]

Our company uses a telnet application for most of its business activities. We also use Norton Ghost to deploy images to the workstations. These two apps don't seem to mix whenever we deploy an image out. The telnet app will slow to a crawl or lose connection. The internet doesn't seem to take that much of an impact though. What is strange is that this only happens when we deploy images. Everything runs fine if we are dumping an image to the server.

When we deploy an image, we run the ghost server on one of the network servers. The image is also stored on the same server. We run the process using multicast. There is a switch between the servers and the patch panel.

Is there another way to set up Ghost so it doesn't kill our telnet app? Would running the ghost server on another workstation instead of the server help?

 

[cmv]

Your preception of network issues is going to be much better in a telnet session than when using a web browser. We all expect more than a couple millesecond delay loading a web page and a slightly elevated network load isn't going to increase the overall page load very much but telnet is a different story. Telnet will send a number of smaller packets -- practically 1 for each keypress. If these packets get slightly delayed, it is very noticeable.

Can you use QoS to lower the priority on Ghost traffic and elevate the priority on Telnet/everything else?

BTW, I noticed this issue at a client site when the Ghost server was behind a 10 Mb port. Not too surprising but you might want to verify everything is on the up and up in regards to network connections.

 

[LiLithTecH]

When using Ghost Multicasting, having the Server on its own VLAN
is the best solution if it is available.