Symantec™ Deployment and Migration Solutions

There are multiple ways to leverage the Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite technology to meet the complex operating system deployment and
migration requirements of your organization—whether they’re simple, basic operating system imaging or more involved patching, software
management, and compliance for a complex environment. Symantec has a solution to meet your imaging needs. Move easily from one offering to
the next to enhance your capabilities.

Complete Lifecycle
Classic Imaging Enterprise Deployment
Endpoint Management
Ideal For: Centralized, scalable
Comprehensive,
deployment and
Essential OS imaging scalable client
migration for
for individual sites or management for
medium-to-large
small-to-medium medium-to-large
businesses
businesses with low businesses with high IT
with moderate IT
IT complexity complexity and
complexity
multiple sites
and multiple sites

Functions:
Hot Imaging: Images may be created
from a running machine, using Volume
Snapshot, from both the Ghost Console
and the standard tools
Supported imaging standards: Virtual
Machine Disk (VMDK) technology,
Ghost Virtual Volume Imaging (.v2i),
PowerQuest Drive Image® (PQI)
formats, and Physical to
Virtual/Virtual-to Physical (P2V/V2P)
conversion
File-preserving imaging that saves,
moves, and renames user files,
software installs, and more
Zero-touch image deployment for
remote site migration
Scripted operating system installation
(such as base and custom scripts from
a single job)
Automated replication of tasks,
images, configurations, packages,
policies, and more
Role- and scope-based security
End-to-end client migration (operating
system settings, application
data/settings, user data/settings)
Cross-platform operating system and
application patching
Software distribution and compliance
Hardware and software discovery and
inventory
Extensive reporting, workflow, and
data analysis
Remote assistance for troubleshooting
Benefits:
Reduce client interruption with up-to-date
images occurring in the background
• • •
Multiple imaging standards supported to fit
different environments
• • •
Reduce administrator time creating images
and related management cost • • •
Reduce the costs that are associated with
• •
moving to a new operating system
Reduce the costs and complexities of
deployments • •
Reduce end-user error by automating the
deployment process and repeatable • •
deployment tasks
Manage assets for users, reduce potential
risks, and secure management features • •
from unauthorized personnel
Reduce the costs that are associated with
deploying, migrating, and provisioning
• •
desktops, laptops, and servers throughout
the organization
Easily keep up to date with new features
•
across different platforms
Increase security, client, and IT productivity •
Optimize software licenses and reduce the
costs that are associated with operating •
system deployments and software rollouts
Maintain IT assets with confidence
•
Increase scalability without adding
•
additional IT administrative staff

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