# Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite the right Disk Imaging solution for you? Explore 36 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/156416/Symantec-Ghost-Solution-Suite/reviews --- Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 4.3 (36) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/156416/Symantec-Ghost-Solution-Suite/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 3.8 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 36 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Gihan N. IT Officer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Symantec Ghost " July 19, 2021 4.0 Overall this is a really good solution for disk imaging and restoration. Pros This is a real-time server, this can do os/disk imaging and restoration really fast. disk to disk clone is also really good and this really helps full if you are doing large-scale disk cloning. currently I'm using this solution to take my company PC backups. Cons No failures/troubles still got using this application. Switched from [Aomei Backupper](https://www.capterra.com/p/144769/Aomei-Backupper/) difficult to use the interface. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Assistant Project Manager Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Symantec Ghost Review" August 13, 2018 4.0 As an end user, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite was easy to use and simple. Although I wasn't involved in deployment, I had used the application almost every day to image new or old machines. From my perspective, it was easy and simple. That made it effective for new hires to quickly catch on as well. Pros Very easy to use from an end user perspective Simple interface that allows for a lot of functionality Cons Our deployment and management team seemed to have trouble with upgrades. However I cannot speak on behalf of them as I was not involved on that project. Updates took a while Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Clone and Go - Perfect" November 13, 2019 3.0 I wasn't in love with it. I looked forward to our change over to another product. Pros If you are looking for a product that can clone a machine and then put that image back down on a plethora of other machines this works great. But, if you want customization this isn't for you. Cons It doesn't allow for a custom deployment task sequence. (At least the version we were using didn't.) If there were things that required to be installed on a per machine basis we had to either do those by hand after it finished cloning or we had to use another deployment tool after the fact to distribute the software/customizations to the machines Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sviluppatore Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A backup solution suite" April 24, 2018 4.0 Pros Symantec Ghost allows you to create system images through guided wizards, that greatly speeds up the backup process, and the deploying process as well Cons I remember using a version (not the last one though as I recently switched to another solution) and it caused some compatibility problems on my machines, and it also appeared quite a heavy software to me Review Source Carlos R. Head of Industrial Metrology Lab Used the software for: 2+ years ### "For prepare many PCs in little time with low personal this software is a winner" May 28, 2018 5.0 Pros I use Ghost since winXP, in my lab have 5 PCs identical and each time that begin to malfunction only backup data and put the image store. Very easy to manage and use, many and variate options. Cons I don't have problems with my few PCs, no compatibility inconsistencies , for now. A little problems will arise if you no have knowledge about configuration of your LAN. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Network Operations Manager / Systems Engineer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for imaging laptops/desktops with images built" June 10, 2018 4.0 Pros Simple to use to flash images created to machines with ease of use, load drivers on the go with each image. Cons Confusing at times with outdated interface, support is tough at times depending on the issue and if they re willing to troubleshoot outside of the product Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Manager - Technical Services Division Computer Networking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for disk duplication!" September 12, 2018 5.0 Pros I use this mostly to duplicate hard drives that are failing. It's important that we get a good copy so that we don't lose our client's data and Ghost let's us do just that! Cons There is really nothing negative I can say. Another great product from Symantec! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Business System Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best way to backup and deploy" November 3, 2018 5.0 Pros I've used Ghose suite for taking backups and deploying over on a network. Its a great tool for system administrators. Cons The UI for this tool needs improvement when compared to its competitors. Basic tutorials on how to use the tools should be present for helping novice users. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Network Administrator Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Imaging software" April 30, 2019 3.0 We used to have this solution in our company but was replaced with a more efficient one Pros You can deploy windows images faster than running installation drives one by one on each PC Cons It is not that fast if compared with other Softwares. PXE imaging is supported but gives trouble to set ip up Review Source Matt P. Network Administrator Real Estate Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Symantec Ghost Review" December 7, 2018 4.0 Pros I liked that it simply worked. I was able to load my image, and deploy to countless machines simultaneously. Cons I don't recall having ever having an issue with this product. The issues were always related to my machines. Review Source FH Frederic H. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A powerfull disc image iso backup and disk physical true copy" January 7, 2021 5.0 Very usefull and the tools that i've had used for many years at my beginning in troubleshooting computer trade Pros The standard features of ghost principes to copy an entire disk when you need to replace a disk or make an image to mount it after with a virutal disk Cons Many times you need a usb hard disk adapter to ghost quickly you drive and i dont have it available every day Review Source DD Douglas D. IT / internet director Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great software deployment for new PCs and Harddrives" July 13, 2018 5.0 Pros Deploys a software image to new drive in a few steps. The wizards provided in software allow people with limited IT experience to deploy software to new PCs. Cons You do need a little understanding of network connections to be able to connect to Ghost Images from workstation. Support is not very responsive. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Support Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ghost software" December 3, 2019 5.0 I have used the Ghost software for only the basics. I used the main software to create the boot discs or USB drives needed to boot a machine and auto-start the Ghost software. Once a computer is booted into Ghost, an complete image of the hard drive may be captured (by volume, by drive, can be spanned over multiple media devices if needed, etc). I often use Ghost to simply verify the integrity of a hard drive. When you boot into the ghost software, you can do a "disk check" which basically verifies that an image may be accurately acquired. If an image may be acquired, this tells me that the health of the hard drive is reasonable stable. Ghost software does far more than just this, but this is the primary function that I use it for. Pros What I like most about this software is that it works on all computers both old (Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8) and new (Windows 10). The very basics of capturing an NTFS image just haven't changes over the years so that this software still does very well what it was designed to do (in terms of basic capturing of an image and re-deploying that image to a hard drive that is an identical model). Cons What I like least about this software is just the lack of support if/when needed. If there is a problem, the best help resource available is online articles. But, it is next to impossible to get anyone on the phone who will provide specific assistance. Fortunately, the software is so straight-forward, that I have rarely needed support. Review Source DD Dave D. Head Computer Technician Computer Hardware Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best cloning software" June 23, 2022 5.0 I have been using ghost for most of my career ..A+++ Pros I find the speed of cloning and the accuracy is excellent Cons Updates ..you have to go look for them. Sometimes the updates dont install correctly but tech help is very easy to reach Reason for choosing Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Professional grade product Review Source ZB ZIYA B. System Engineer Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Symantec Ghost solution solutions never end" December 19, 2019 5.0 If you work in the Support department of the IT department, installing this operating system on the machine is problematic and no one can handle it quickly. But thanks to this application you can easily realize everything you dream, you can serialize the operating system to set up. Pros The best image application for unicast or multicast. Cons Some concepts may be difficult for beginner users. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Deskside support technician Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Symantec Ghost " March 5, 2019 5.0 We have used it for automated system rollouts and its a cost and time saver Pros We use ghost for all of our corporate imaging needs, it makes computer deployment a breeze with a click of a button.. Cons Ghost does not have any cons. Its a time saver and always just works for all of out imaging needs Review Source FY F Y. IT Management Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One person can setup 100 PCs at the same time in 10 minutes using Symantec Ghost!" November 3, 2016 5.0 In the past I worked in a university where classroom PCs needed to be refreshed after every course, that means wiping the drives clean, reinstalling the operating system, drivers, updates, applications, and configuring everything to be the same as the other PCs in the classroom. As you can imagine that process takes several hours to do just 1 PC but with Symantec Ghost I can create a baseline image in a few minutes and push that image to the PCs I want simultaneously and the whole process just takes about 10 minutes (your mileage may vary depending on your network speed, number of PCs, size of image, etc.). Symantec Ghost Solution Suite provides several tools to manage the above tasks such as the Ghost Server, Ghost client boot media, Ghost Explorer to view and edit image files without having to rebuild them. Once you understand the concept of multicasting, the software is pretty straightforward to use: Create an image of your baseline PC, Create bootable CDs, discs, or USB sticks for your client PCs you want to image, start a Ghost multicast session on the Ghost server and give it the image file you want to push, boot the client PCs to the session you created and sit back and watch 10 or 100s of PCs get all their needed software in a few minutes. Pros Speed, support for wide variety of hardware, wizards make even complex tasks easy to master. Cons Requires a good understanding of TCP/IP and networking fundamentals to use effectively. Review Source RM Rafael M. Analyst Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ghost is a timesaver" May 18, 2021 4.0 Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is well suited for larger environments. It helps to manage the mass of computers we use. I find Ghost most helpful with standard hardware model computers. Pros A large advantage is saving time on arranging or recall all the custom setting you may require. Ghost Solution saved the setting arrangements in the picture, saving you long periods of manual setups. Ghost saves significant time by imaging another PC instead of having to arrangement new or existing PCs without any preparation. Cons BIOS should be reconfigured some of the time if a heritage boot isn't being utilized when network booting for reimaging. Ghost has pressure to decrease the size of the picture, however when you need to store every one of the drivers inside the picture it expands the complete size of the picture you need to oversee. Review Source Sunil M. Used the software for: ### "Symantec Ghost " April 21, 2017 5.0 We used Symantec Ghost on our computers we had at college both in the labs and throughout the public locations on campus. Using Ghost greatly simplified the setup and maintenance of public use computers. The suite made it fairly easy to update the various images for the different computers we maintained as well and allowed us to deploy images en' mass over the network. The initial setup of the system and server was a bit complicated, but once that portion was complete, using the suite was straightforward. For lab management, or public computers that need to be maintained regardless of who uses them, I would recommend looking into Symantec Ghost Suite. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Solutions Architect Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Symantec Ghost is a great way to create standard image files. " March 27, 2018 5.0 Pros I found Symantec Ghost very simple to use. We utilized it to create a clone of a standard desktop or laptop image. We then utilized these images for all of our PCs. Cons I don't recall having any issues with the Symantec Ghost software. We utilized the basic cloning/iso feature. Review Source JL Jeff L. Computer Support Specialist Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SEP" February 23, 2021 3.0 I liked it while using it, but we no longer utilize it. Pros Great way to quickly prep out of box systems for company deployment, loaded with all of the software required. A big time time saver. Cons The updated version was difficult to use. Imaging multiple systems simultaneously degraded network performance Review Source IA Iwan A. Security Assessment Specialist Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Windows migration" July 27, 2018 4.0 Pros Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is quite good for imaging and distributing Windows. The system works very well in large environments. Cons Driver installation is relatively poorly automated. The system is relatively difficult to handle at the beginning. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Analyst Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Client Management " June 23, 2018 5.0 Pros End-to-end client migration operating system settings, application data/settings, user data/settings. Cons Automated replication of tasks, images, configurations, packages, policies, and software compliance. Review Source Michael G. Network Engineer I Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Ghost Solution" March 27, 2018 5.0 Pros We use Symantec's Ghost suite for all of our new machine deployments. We have a system set up that when we plug in a new machine, we navigate to map-able drive and within one click it's blasting on our ghosted image. Very convenient and quick. Cons Not as user friendly as it can be, but it's pretty understandable given the boot environment we typically use it in. Review Source GE Gilad E. Certification Engineer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### ""Ghosting" HDD for PCs" May 11, 2018 4.0 Pros I like the graphical interface of the product including it's bootable one, also the drive image capabilities are pretty successful from my perspective and is doing the job. Cons The product offer tiring advanced option menu which contains too much information for the average user dispite some of these features might be relevant, also, the copying process is not 100% and might miss some files, maybe due to the technology it leans on. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Disk Imaging](https://www.capterra.com/disk-imaging-software/) ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.