Customer: An organization that trains radiologists

Situation: They certify radiologists to use computer based radiology tools at their site in Northern VA. Radiologists come in from across the US to get certified. Each radiologist wants to get advanced training on the tool that he has at his hospital. Right now there are 7 tools on the market. All are workstation based and require a dedicated CPU and a high powered graphics card. 5 of the tools are WINTEL based and 2 are LINUX based.

The Problem: Right now depending on the class they manually load the software for a specific class. Each class is 60-100 students and each PC is configured for the software that the radiologist uses at his home site. The mix of what each radiologist uses is not constant and in some classes all 7 systems can be used. This causes an issue since they have a small IT staff. Right now it takes 3-5 hours to wipe the old image, lload and configure the software for each workstation and it is prone to human error. Not sure how many applications can be VM’d since they all like dedicated workstations.

Desire: Automate the configuration for each class by using SAN or disk imaging technology or perhaps run the instance on VMWare or use and ESD tool.

Question: What tools support this solution? .