Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 is the industry’s most widely-used deployment, system management, and computer imaging software solution. Use Ghost’s proven hardware-independent imaging capabilities to significantly accelerate day-to-day imaging and deployment needs. This Windows migration software can also migrate all your client systems, including Windows 7, to the latest operating system, all from a single management console.

Key Features
• DeployAnywhere technology creates hardware-independent imaging.
• Create base images from a live system using hot imaging.
• Support for Microsoft Windows Vista and 64-Bit OS's.
• Single centralized management console for management of all migration tasks.
• Built-in Vista inventory filters for identification and targeting of 'Vista ready' machines.
• Hardware and software inventory for efficiently managing image and software deployments.

Key Benefits
• Enhance and leverage Microsoft's own best practices for Windows Vista deployment and migration.
• Simplify image management by creating fewer images.
• Multicast accelerates deployments and reduces overall network traffic.
• Accelerated imaging compared to standard OS tools using market proven technology.
• Recognize significant cost and time savings when imaging, deploying, migrating, and managing systems.

New Features
The industry's most widely-used corporate imaging, deployment and management solution includes easy-to-use imaging and deployment, OS and user data and settings migration, software distribution, hardware and software inventory, and secure system retirement.

• DeployAnywhere technology reduces disk image proliferation and maintenance through hardware independent imaging that automatically detects and injects drivers which match your target hardware configuration.
• Hot imaging automatically refreshes images from a live reference machine prior to deploying the image thereby reducing the risk of stale, out-of-date images. Hot imaging also images directly from a reference machine to an endpoint without any intermediate image creation step.
• Logical volume support decreases imaging time by capturing images across Windows or Linux logical volumes that span multiple disks or partitions.
• Support for additional imaging formats including VMware disk image format (VMDK), Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR), and PowerQuest (PQi).

System Requirements

Symantec Ghost "Server" and Console
• Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server SP3, Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard/Enterprise, Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Enterprise
• Video display supporting 256 colors at 800 by 600 resolution

Symantec Ghost Console Client
• Windows Networking connectivity
• 64/32-bit Windows OS including Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Enterprise, Vista Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional (excluding support for 64-bit Itanium processors), Windows Server 2008 R2
• 32-bit Windows applications
• Single boot system (no dual boot support)
• Current DOS drivers for workstation network cards

Symantec Ghost Imaging Tools
• Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Enterprise, Vista Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server SP3, Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard/Enterprise, Windows XP Professional SP2
• Hardware RAID only supported with Ghost32.exe in Pre-OS environment (MS WinPE or similar)
• Support for FAT, FAT32. NTFS, non-boot GPT partitions, native Linux ExT2 and ExT3