--- title: Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Reviews meta\_title: 'Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Symantec Ghost Solution Suite works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Reviews & Product Details Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite is an industry leading and award winning solution for imaging and deploying desktops, laptops, tablets, and servers. From a single management console, you can quickly and easily migrate to the latest operating systems, inventory machines, deploy software, and perform custom configurations across multiple hardware platforms and OS types including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 includes the Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9 console and its core capabilities while adding key functionality from Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 including Ghost Cast Server, DeployAnywhere, Recovery Kit, and a streamlined no-cost database installation. * * * Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Community](https://www.g2.com/products/symantec-ghost-solution-suite/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/symantec-ghost-solution-suite/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SmartDeploy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SmartDeploy") SmartDeploy 4.7/5(152) ](https://www.g2.com/products/smartdeploy/reviews) [ ![Macrium Backup & Restore](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Macrium Backup & Restore") Macrium Backup & Restore 4.7/5(91) ](https://www.g2.com/products/macrium-backup-restore/reviews) [ ![Clonezilla](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Clonezilla") Clonezilla 4.3/5(15) ](https://www.g2.com/products/clonezilla/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/symantec-ghost-solution-suite/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Girishkumar A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Girishkumar A.") GA Girishkumar A. System admin 3/3/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Need support for imaging solution" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? It's user friendly Immediate support Cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? I have not used this tool now I can't describe it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? We have 879 machines which are need to migrate with windows 10 os. Hope this tool will reduce my burden Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Andrew B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Andrew B.") AB Andrew B. IT Services Client Group Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/25/2018 "Easily manages hundreds of computers" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Ghost Solutions Suite management console makes it easy to manage hundreds of computers. It works well with our remote management remote desktop software, Bomgar. You can right click on a computer, and easily open Bomgar to that specific page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? The User Login Tracking is sometimes unreliable. Sometimes it can claim that it is not logged in, but in reality a user is logged in. Because of this, it can make it difficult to deploy scripts that have user intervention or ones that require a reboot. We utilize an internal tool to work with User Tracking that relies on login/logout scripts. The Ghost Solutions Suite (GSS) also takes a while to refresh information. If more than one user is refreshing at a time, it can take a couple of minutes for it to refresh and load the information you are looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Symantec Ghost Solution Suite: It's quite slow at times. When the Ghost Solutions Suite has to communicate back to the server, it can take a while to refresh. Make sure to set the "Auto Refresh time" under Tools -\> Options to a large number. If this is not set, it will freeze up other cowerkers Ghost window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? The Ghost Solutions Suite (GSS) makes it easy to deploy scripts and tasks to computers without having to manually interact with computers. It makes it easy to deploy tasks on off-hours, such as at 2AM. You can schedule tasks to kick off without any user intervention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/7/2018 "Seamless experience for protecting PC" 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Great protection without even thinking about administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? From an end user perspective i have found nothing to complain about in the years we have been using it. Each time I've asked my admin if they want to switch they prefer to stay with Symantec Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Symantec Ghost Solution Suite: total end user security and ease of administration makes this a great product suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? Consolidated end user securities and easy administration from network administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") AT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2018 " Ghost Solutions always a good decision" 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Ghost solutions by Symantec has been our company's go to for our corporate drive imaging since the early 2000s and we haven't wavered once since. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? There is nothing that we dislike about ghost solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? Ghost Solutions Suite provides our organization with peace of mind with ensuring data images are up to date in the event of system issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/25/2017 "A Very Strong and Customisable Imaging Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? The current version GSS 3.1 MP5 has seen a good level of development in the past few years and comes off the back of Deployment Solution. The toolset is highly customizable and recent versions have brought in support for UEFI BIOS and the capability to support multiple pre-boot environments. The biggest strength of the software is probably the community support around it. Symantec host a large forum with a wealth of information and documentation, assistance with issues is very forth coming. Support is available for all major OS's through Agents and local folders on the client can be used to store images and packages, reducing strain on the network while running tasks. Deployments can be fully automated, allowing for zero-touch imaging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Support for Mac OS is very limited. There are currently no options for imaging Macs but an Agent can be installed, allowing further tasks to be ran from the console. The tools for Mac OS have improved but there is still a long way to go. There are multiple other products that do this better and provide a much more complete toolset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Symantec Ghost Solution Suite: Very robust platform that is highly customizable. Support for script tasks (Powershell, CMD etc.) allows for any task to be automated. There are a number of tools allowing for building OS and package deployments, along with support for multiple Pre-boot environments and UEFI. Very good community support on Symantec's Connect forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? Imaging across a network with multiple sites and subnets. IP helpers are required, as should be expected, and multicast allows for large deployments. Once setup, the system is very simple to use and has allowed for a small team to manage a large estate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/27/2017 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") AR Verified User in Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/13/2016 "Ghost Solution Suite 3.1" 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Moving from Altiris DS6.9 has been a smooth transition as the interface largely remains unchanged although a few things under the hood have changed. It didn't take very long to get a test server up and running and some of our old jobs ported across for testing builds of our latest generation of hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? We've encountered a few bugs with this, particular experiencing agent crashes on clients connecting from automation. Although that said feeding back these issues has resulted in a fix so the product is becoming more and more stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? We need to be able to deploy machines easily and reliably, more importantly we need users with little or no training to be able to do this and through various customisations and the power built in tools we've got a robust build solution which requires little effort from the person deploying the workstation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/29/2016 "Easy to use to get users back up and runing. " 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? It's a good solution to make a standard based image with what we need. Using sysprep, we can deploy a standard drive with all software needed in no time to any user who has issues with a system that has completely gone down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Ghost has some issues with drivers on dell laptops. Hard to get ghost boot to work correctly via network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Symantec Ghost Solution Suite: Preform lots of test and understand how this software functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Andrea Lorenzo C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Andrea Lorenzo C.") AC Andrea Lorenzo C. Technical Specialist Logistics and Supply Chain Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/12/2016 "Massive use of Ghost Solution Suite 3.0" 4/5 What do you like best about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? Centralized console. Easy way to deploy agent. Lot of different tasks and remote managing features. SQL based database, so you can get more info with a SQL query. Symantec support in case of issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite? There isn't a way to import a list of computers whom assign a task. Import / export is too poor, need to run external SQL query to have a report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Symantec Ghost Solution Suite solving and how is that benefiting you? I have created several groups of machines where run different tasks; for example Finance tasks for Finance machines I change the configuration for custom applications when is necessary. I upgrade or deploy software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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