I work for a Microsoft Certified Refurbish-er of PC’s. Recently, we started using a WDS/MDT system to install images to the computers. Previously we were cloning HDD from images. My boss set it up so we have the ability to image 24 computers at once. But the issue we have run into is:
If any 2 computers are copying images from the server, it is making the rest of them wait till those 2 are done. All of this is running over 1 gigabit network port and when I bring up task manager that port is doing somewhere around 105 mbs.
Quick network topology: Dell power edge server running 2 VM’s though hyper-visor, then out one port to a switch, then from that switch to 2 other switches, each switch is running 8 machines.
This power-edge server has 4 ports all are gigabit, one is used for remote access and one is used for the WDS/MDT part. Is there a way to use the other 2 ports for the WDS/MDT or is there a better way to setup this network so we can run all 24 machines at one,
Warning, I did not set this up, or configured the server, I was asked if I could look into this issue and see if I could find a solution, mostly because I have the most network knowledge where I work, though that is very limited knowledge.
Hopefully this post is understandable to people with a lot more expertise than I.
Thanks
If any 2 computers are copying images from the server, it is making the rest of them wait till those 2 are done. All of this is running over 1 gigabit network port and when I bring up task manager that port is doing somewhere around 105 mbs.
Quick network topology: Dell power edge server running 2 VM’s though hyper-visor, then out one port to a switch, then from that switch to 2 other switches, each switch is running 8 machines.
This power-edge server has 4 ports all are gigabit, one is used for remote access and one is used for the WDS/MDT part. Is there a way to use the other 2 ports for the WDS/MDT or is there a better way to setup this network so we can run all 24 machines at one,
Warning, I did not set this up, or configured the server, I was asked if I could look into this issue and see if I could find a solution, mostly because I have the most network knowledge where I work, though that is very limited knowledge.
Hopefully this post is understandable to people with a lot more expertise than I.
Thanks