We are a small college with about 1,500 computers. We have probably 50 different images with a lot of older software that can not be managed well with Altiris. Also we use Ghost to back up all employee computers before re-imaging or delivering a new computer. We keep these images for at least 12 months and in certain cases much longer due to the nature of the information on some drives. GSS 2.5.1 provided an excellent means of managing all of our images. The ability to manually define the image resources within the console and store the images in an easy to fnid location and folder structure greatly helped us when we needed to recover data from an archive image. We tried using Altiris 7.1 and 7.5 but found the way the images were stored made it very difficult to locate the exact backup image we were looking for. As well when creating a hardware independent image the wait time to replicate to the deployment server often bit us in the rear during crunch time. Which is the 3 times a year we re-image every lab and lecture computer on campus. During these times we only have 1 week to complete the process on about 1000 computers so waiting is not an option. We also ran into a problem with the images constantly being checked because they were reporting 0kb size which Symantec Tech support was never able to figure out. I apologize for the long explanation but I wanted to provide some background for my question.
I watched the webcast and saw the Ghost Console but did not see the resources section I am familiar with in GSS 2.5.1. How does GSS 3.0 store the images? Does it use an easy and intuitive way that makes it easy to find where a specific image is stored? or does it use the random GUID folder names from Altiris which makes me feel like I am playing hide and seek with my images?