WinPE via WDS extreamly slow

[jtsm]

Just wanted to get a feel for how long it takes other people to deploy a WIM image.

I have created a basic WinXpSP2 WIM image that is approx 1.6GB with no compression. Am deploying via WinPE\WDS.

It is taking in excess of 10 hours to deploy an image to a PC.

Any suggestions of what I can look at to help speed up the process or performance tips?

Thanks,

jtsm

[ubernerd]

Normally my Images (500MB to 1.9 GB) deploy in between 4 and 10 minutes depending on the size (using a gb network)

This goes for both WDS and winpe/imagex deployments.

You may wanna look into your network config, as that is normally the source of speedproblems

Edited August 24, 2007 by ubernerd

[jtsm]

Thanks,

We are runing WDS in mixed mode with RIS, I'll test switching this out and see if i can get some improvement.

[p4ntb0y]

I would look into splitting your wims into smaller chunks if WDS can hadle swn's that is I have not tested this yet.

[jtsm]

I took some time but we worked out what was causing our issue. (We had progressed on a different server)

Our original test server was a HP DC7700p desktop with Inte VPro Nic, running Windows Server Standard 2003 R2. This appears to be a volitile combination and the NIC has data flow problems with this model and OS.

changed network cards and the install now takes 10 minutes, compare to 3 days.

BTW - I did try chunking the WIm files down to 300 MB parts and it did improve the load time to 1.7 days. So shows that it does help. But have seen no reason to do this while fully functional.

Thanks for the hand...

jtsm