Hello,
I am trying to optimize the deployment of WIM files using MDT and I am having trouble making any difference in the performance.
From the time PE starts it takes about 6 minutes to deploy a 5.6GB Windows 2016 STD (with updates) WIM file.
I would expect it to take about 90 seconds total on a 1Gbps connection (between the client and the server that stores the WIM file).
5600 (MB) / 113 (910Mbps or so) = 49.5 seconds. I can see in task manager on the server that occasionally the throughput on the NIC goes up as high as 500Mbps but it never gets close to 910Mbps.
I have been experimenting with different disks on the client machine and different disks on the server machine and it doesn't really seem to matter what the underlying hardware is.
Has anyone done any extensive work on this and had any success?