DEPLOYSTUDIO SERVER MAC

That's actually a rather typical problem, I always stagger my Macs when netbooting.Ĭheck your disk utilization when netbooting the lab all at once, it could be the server disk performance that's the issue and not the network. Our Netboot protocol is NFS, all the forums we've looked at had people struggling with an AFP limit, but theirs was usually around 40 or 50 computers limit. So just to be clear our current problem is NOT that the reimaging is crashing at 10, its that we can't get more than 10 to Netboot to the server before the reimaging can even start. So we tried Netbooting a few more a second time and they couldn't connect either. We thought this would solve our problem but when we attempted to Netboot all the computers at once so that DeployStudio could take over and reimage them, only 10 successfully started to reimage, the rest went back to the desktop. Switches B and C are in turn connected to 10 of the 20 computers respectively. Then there is a 2 gigabit pipe from Switch A to Switch B, and another 2 gigabit pipe from Switch A to Switch C. There's a 4 gigabit pipe from the imaging server to Switch A.

There are 20 lab computers, and 3 switches.

We were running into a bandwidth issue where we'd start reimaging 6 computers at once, but on the 7th the DeployStudio instance would crash and that computer would eventually just restart.

DEPLOYSTUDIO SERVER MAC

I've been helping set up a Xserve Mac imaging server in my college computer lab.

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