Symantec™ Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 Powerful, versatile, and efficient PC and lifecycle management Data Sheet: Endpoint Management

Overview System Recovery (V2I), and PowerQuest (PQI) hard disk Symantec Ghost™ Solution Suite 2.5 is the industry’s most images widely used imaging and deployment solution with ease-of- Decreases downtime, risk, and cost of user migrations use for managing the entire PC lifecycle, including operating • Allows administrators to perform fully managed client- system deployment with hardware-independent imaging, driven migrations, simplifying implementation, software distribution, easy migration of user settings and maintenance, and user-based operations, and reduces the profiles, and secure PC retirement. cost and risk associated with client migration

Benefits • Preserves user data and personality settings, minimizing Reduces deployment costs, complexity, and time post-migration support costs, disruptions, and end-user • Helps ensure that workstations remain consistent and downtime compliant with corporate standards from acquisition to • Allows administrators to set policies that restrict users disposal from adding unauthorized files to the migration package

• Simplifies image management and reduces the number of Facilitates secure PC retirement images needed for deployment by using DeployAnywhere™ • Reduces the risk and liability associated with PC retirement technology to deploy hardware independent images and data disposal by implementing best practice strategies • Fast and reliable deployment and migration of user data for PC retirement and data disposal and settings to the latest OS, including Windows® 7 • Ensures that confidential data cannot be recovered from • Enables administrators to keep images from becoming recycled, retired, or leased PCs stale by using hot imaging on a continually updated base • Meets the highest industry standards for secure data machine, and flexible image management options disposal, including Department of Defense (DoD) standards • Simultaneously deploys hundreds of Windows or ® Features client systems across the enterprise in minutes Industry-leading hardware independent imaging • Allows administrators to configure and schedule tasks • DeployAnywhere technology inserts hardware drivers at from a centralized console, including rolling out software, the appropriate time during imaging to support a large upgrading operating systems, executing commands variety of hardware configurations remotely, and targeting computers based on specific hardware and software attributes • Creates file-based images of any FAT, NTFS, , and file systems • Provides image multicasting to minimize bandwidth usage and speed the deployment of new images • Supports logical volumes on Windows and Linux • Enables the use of the Microsoft® Windows Preinstallation • Facilitates easy image exploration and extraction of Environment, and Linux to accelerate and automate individual files in file-based images, while also allowing the Windows and Linux deployments addition, deletion, or modification of any file within any FAT-based image • Provides administrators with flexible image options by the ability to deploy VMware (VMDK), Symantec Exec™

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• Enables sector-based imaging with Smart Sector • Multicast file transfers allow administrators to send and Technology for creating an exact and efficient image of a execute critical security-related “hot fixes” to multiple system that can be used for rapid OS deployment or recipients simultaneously system recovery • A centralized management console increases IT • Hot imaging creates base images from a live system to productivity and helps lower the total cost of ownership ensure that the most up-to-date image is deployed every (TCO) for networked PCs and workstations time • New recovery kit allows VARs and system integrators to • Image compression saves valuable disk and network space, provision an onboard boot environment— eliminating the while significantly reducing the time required to create and need to provide bootable media to initiate a recovery restore images over a network process—so the image and recovery environment can now • Support for additional image files, such as VMware be booted by pressing a function key (VMDK), System Recovery V2I, and • The ability to create detailed reports from fully PowerQuest PQI images customizable filters and views gives administrators easy

Windows and PC migration access to the information they need • Symantec™ AutoInstall reduces the time and cost of • Easily create bootable CD-ROMs and USB Flash ROMs for managing software distribution across a network by increased flexibility providing an efficient means of installing application • Universal network driver allows IT staff to create a single packages and updates Boot Disk for every PC on their network—regardless of • Custom templates expedite the overall migration process different network cards • Access rights and transport encryption prevent PC and data disposal unauthorized access, providing secure transfer and storage • GDisk utility ensures that confidential data cannot be of user data recovered from recycled, retired, or leased PCs by using • Web-based self-service tool for user migrations simplifies secure disk wiping in accordance with U.S. DoD implementation, maintenance, and user-based operations requirements • Client staging area minimizes network storage and • GDisk 32 provides secure disk wiping from Windows PE bandwidth issues • Includes FAT formatting, batch mode operation,

Systems management hiding/unhiding of partitions, and extensive partition reporting • Hardware and software inventory capabilities provide

administrators with client machine details that allow them System Requirements to more effectively manage their image and software Following represents minimum hardware and software deployment, including the ability to design provisioning requirements to run all Symantec Ghost Solution Suite tasks based on specific client attributes components, which may vary by the components you install. • Client staging area preserves contents during a cloning or Symantec Ghost Server and Console restore to ensure an original state “onboard” recovery • Windows® 8 Pro/Enterprise, Windows® 7 Ultimate/ solution for every PC, thereby helping to minimize Business/Enterprise, ® Ultimate/Business/ disruption of user productivity Enterprise, Windows® 2000 Professional, Microsoft

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Windows® Server 2008, Windows® 2000 Server SP3, More Information Windows® Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1, Windows Visit our website Server 2003 R2 Standard/Enterprise, Windows® XP http://enterprise.symantec.com Professional SP2 To speak with a Product Specialist in the U.S. • Video display, 256 colors at 800 x 600 resolution Call toll-free 1 (800) 745 6054

Symantec Ghost Console Client To speak with a Product Specialist outside the U.S. • Windows Networking connectivity For specific country offices and contact numbers, please visit • 64/32-bit Windows OS including Ultimate/ our website.

Business/Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate/Business/ About Symantec Enterprise, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional Symantec protects the world’s information, and is a global (excluding support for 64-bit Itanium® processors), leader in security, backup, and availability solutions. Our R2 innovative products and services protect people and • 32-bit Windows applications information in any environment – from the smallest mobile • Single boot system (no dual boot support) device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities, • Current DOS drivers for workstation network cards and interactions gives our customers confidence in a Symantec Ghost Imaging Tools connected world. More information is available at • Windows 8 Pro/Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate/Business/ www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate/Business/Enterprise, go.symantec.com/socialmedia. Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server SP3, Symantec World Headquarters Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1, Windows 350 Ellis St. Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard/ Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Enterprise, Windows XP Professional SP2 +1 (650) 527 8000 • Hardware RAID only supported with Ghost32.exe in Pre-OS 1 (800) 721 3934 environment (MS WinPE or similar) www.symantec.com • Support for FAT, FAT32. NTFS, non-boot GPT partitions, native Linux ExT2 and ExT3

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