Partition Size; Spanning Media; Multicasting; How Multicasting Works - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Spanning Media

Multicasting

Deployment Solution
When a computer receives an image, you can select which partitions to download. The
default setting is to restore all partitions, which would overwrite any existing partitions.
To keep an existing partition, you can specify which partitions to download and which to
ignore. You can also use command-line switches to keep existing partitions.
Partition slots on the target computer will be, by default, the same as the image source
PC. A partition occupying slot 3 in the image file will be by default in slot 3 on the target
computer.
By default, the following partition types will not be overwritten:
Automation partitions
OEM system partitions
The default behavior can be overridden.

Partition Size

When you are restoring an image to a computer, the destination hard disk may be a
different size than the disk imaged. If there are multiple partitions, the partition size
percentage of the Client PCs will, by default, be the same as the image source.
Example:
If you image a 100 GB hard disk where 40% (40 GB) of the disk is a Windows XP
partition and 60% (60 GB) is a data partition, a Client PC with a 200 Gigabyte disk will
use the same percentages. The size of the Windows XP partition will be 80 GB and the
data partition will be 120 GB.
RapiDeploy also offers a partition resize feature that allows you to manually resize the
partitions to a size you specify.
The maximum size for a single image file is 2 GB. Images which exceed this amount are
automatically split into multiple files.
Example:
If you named your image file basepc.img, and the image is split into four files, the
following files are created:
basepc.img
basepc.002
basepc.003
basepc.004
You can set the split image file size to be between 1-2040 MB.

How Multicasting Works

The Master PC manages the multicast session. The multicast transmission is
synchronized by the Master PC, so it will only go as fast as the slowest computer in the
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