Symantec Ghost 7.5 Offers IT Admins Increased Management Capabilities

📅 December 13, 2001 - Symantec Corp. (symantec.ca), the Internet security company, announced Symantec Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition, a PC deployment and upgrade solution that offers IT administrators increased management functionality. Symantec Ghost 7.5 provides a solution to remotely clone, deploy, configure, back-up, restore and distribute software specific images to network and mobile PCs.

Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition introduces"Remote Boot" functionality to enableadministrators to remotely deploy the Ghost client software on individualworkstations from a central location. Symantec Ghost 7.5 eliminates the needfor an IT administrator to visit a workstation in order to install the Ghostclient software or perform routine maintenance and disaster recovery tasks.Administrators also are now offered three methods of deploying Ghost imagesthrough the use of the new GhostCast Server.
"Symantec's Ghost 7.5 provides customers with a way to drastically reduce ITcosts by offering administrators a market-leading deployment and userconfiguration solution with even more management functionality than previousversions," said Joe Wang, vice president of Symantec enterpriseadministration. "Ghost 7.5 allows IT administrators to streamline thedeployment of operating systems, making Ghost an ideal solution formigrating to a new operating system such as Microsoft Windows XP."
Symantec Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition has earned both Microsoft Windows 2000Professional and Server Logo Certification and Designed for MicrosoftWindows XP Professional Logo Certification. To earn these certifications,Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition met a comprehensive set of test criteriaimplemented by VeriTest, the authorized worldwide laboratory for testingboth desktop and server applications for the "Certified for Windows" logofrom Microsoft.
Symantec Ghost 7.5 includes several new features designed to enhance PCdeployment and user management functionality in enterprise environments:
Symantec Ghost "Remote Boot" Technology: Once installed, the Ghostclient provides the ability to create a "virtual partition" which contains afully functional Ghost boot environment, thereby eliminating the need tomanually visit each workstation with a boot diskette or deploy a physicalboot partition.GhostCast Server provides three methods of Ghost image deployment:Multicast for simultaneous deployment of one image to multiple computers;Unicast, for deployment of an image to a single client; Subnet TargetedBroadcast, for selective deployment based upon subnet grouping.Client Initiated Tasks: Provides customers with an optional securemethod to perform Ghost Server Console tasks at a workstation.GhostCast Throttle: Allows IT administrators to "throttle down" themulticast speed to reduce the amount of network bandwidth consumed duringmulticasting.Configurable Client "Heartbeat": Administrators can tune and/or turnoff the Ghost Win32 client "heartbeat," reducing network traffic due toongoing communication between a client machine and the Ghost console.
Ghost 7.5 Corporate Edition also offers additional flexibility andportability by providing administrators the ability to remotely control theGhost Console via Microsoft Terminal Server. Ghost 7.5 also supports LinuxEXT3, offering native support to the newest Linux Journal Filesystem.

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