Best Server Ghost-Like Tool For Windows

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Published on 2010-05-05T17:40:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 17:48 UTC
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I'm looking for advice on which tool we should use to clone servers. In the short term, we will be cloning identical hardware but in the long run we may want to create one image and replicate that on a different class of machine. For example, as new servers are released from Dell, we will want to continue to use the same image we already made.

Right now our servers are Windows (Server 2008 & Server 2008 R2), but moving forward we may need Linux support as well.

Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 seems to be the canonical tool. Are there alternatives? Recommendations/reviews?

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