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cwest,

That is an awfully long time.  Support will tell you to do the integrity check, which is extemely appropriate for this issue, though can take about 30 minutes to complete.

http://www.kace.com/support/resources/kb/article/The-K2000-appliance-Integrity-Check

Corey

Lead L3 Enterprise Solutions Engineer, K2000

First thing that comes to mind is the network connection. 50gb over a dedicated 10MBit line takes about 12 hours already. Could that be an issue?

  During my testing phase, I was able to push a 17 GB image to 25 laptops in a couple hours.  My post-install tasks took an hour or two more.  Our total time generally fluctuates based on the number of Windows Updates since I last refreshed the image.

  The two factors I noticed that significantly impact the time are network bandwidth, as pjgeutjens noted, and disk I/O.  For our virtual K2K, I was able to port-team the virtual adapter and give the K2K a two gigabit connection.  We used gigabit network to the clients.  There is also a noticable difference between deploying to older 5400 RPM laptop drives and pushing the image to desktops.  Other hardware specifications may or may not have an impact.

  Running a larger number of machines at the same time may also eventually show a bottleneck at the disk I/O for the K2K itself.  I don't have a reason to do more than 25 machines at once.

First and foremost, thank everyone for your replies. I would like to also include that our network is a gigabit and the issue just seems to be for the deployment. I can create a 20Gb image and it takes maybe 30-45 minutes. The same package being sent to an identical server takes 24-26 hours to push. I have since talked to Dell and they did ask me to run the "integrity test" and log the results. My appliance is across town so I will have to go out there and obtain the results. Thanks again for the responces.

Is the computer you're imaging and the Kace server on the same network vlan range ?

Also , what switches are you using ? I had a similiar issue that I resolved.