Slow deployment and severe network degredation
We purchased 10 snap deploy licenses as a test. Eventually I want to be able to manage all 30 of our client machines. During my testing, deployment speed maxes out at about 1MB/s using either multicast or unicast. Our entire network performance is severely impacted as well. If i remove the switch from the rest of the network, speeds increase to 30-40MB/s, but as soon as i connect it to the rest of the network, the speeds immediately plummet. Is there any way i can fix this? I really need to be able to deploy over the live network to machines.
C_S are you running multicast or unicast for your deployment?
Daniel. Is your entire network gigabit? you might also want to try some type of packet sniffer to examine your traffic. your speeds could be impacted by users opening or transfering large files or even a bad network card that is being "chatty" and sending out too much traffic. Or maybe even some unused protocols. We had a printer once that was flooding out network with traffic trying to take to netware clients.
I am running Snap-Deploy 4, and I too am experiencing excruciatingly slow speeds. I am, as I write this, Imaging 10 laptops on the same subnet as the server and it is saying it will complete in 8hrs??? We used to run Altiris on our network and never saw such lackluster throughput as this. There has to be some solution to this issue or this product isn't going to be practical. From what I see in the forums here, there hasn't been much addressing the issue.