Throttling Symantec Ghost to reduce the load on the network

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

Can the speed at which Ghost sends information be limited to improve network performance for other computers?

The network may be sluggish and some routers or switches may be flooded.

Environment

GSS 3.x

DS 8.x

Cause

Ghost uses as much network band width as possible which means there is less bandwidth for other computers and applications.

Resolution

Ghost has an option to throttle the bandwidth used. For starters, set the limit to 150 MB/min.

• From the GhostCast Server, click on File > Options. Listed is ' Limit data throughput for ',
• From the Console, the setting is part of a task definition. Right-click on the task and click on the Network tab.

Technical Information
Development has indicated that Ghost divides the throughput value uniformly over a time slice of two seconds and writes this number of bytes in each time slice.