GSS 3.0 and 3.1 - Slow Multicast Speeds - Possible Workaround

Hello all,

We are DS 7.x customers that are currently transitioning to GSS. We will initially be running 3.0 HF3 in production but have been testing 3.1 with plans to upgrade soon.

In 7.x we have multicast speeds of approx. 1000MB/min. Wish it was faster, but it works.  In GSS 3.0 (using WinPE 5 x64) and 3.1 (Using WinPE 10 x64), we are seeing between 200-300MB/min.  As a side note, with unicast we get between 3000-3500MB/min in GSS.

After copying the Ghost executable from 7.1 (Version 12.0.0.4112) and replacing it in 3.1 (Version 12.0.0.8023), speeds are back up to 1000MB/min.  So there may be an issue with the current build of Ghost itself.

I have opened a support case and will let you know what comes of it.

Happy imaging,

Justin.