Deployment Across WAN Slow

[Stephen Clark]

Hi all,

When we are deploying our images across our WAN to multiple computers, it is taking around 6-8 hours per machine to apply the image. I realise this all down to bandwidth, image size (ours is 13GB), etc. but i was wondering if the following would work:

We have local servers at each site, and we were wondering if it is possible to copy the image to these local servers and deploy the images that way - saving on bandwidth and allowing for machines to image quicker? 

I realise this is a long shot, but has anyone else come across this?

Hope you can help. 

Cheers

Stephen

[Jeff Harris]

Hey Stephen,

You can indeed install SmartDeploy on a host at each site, and configure the local clients to point to that host, copy the image to the local network, and then create an Answer File and Deployment Package that points to the local image and perform deployments that way. 

[Stephen Clark]

Awesom! Thanks Jeff, that's a real big help!!