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I want to create a network of computers for a network laboratory in a university. I want to install windows on them. What is the fastest way for doing this and also which equipments I should buy for this laboratory. I also want to use this network as a computer laboratory, operating system laboratory, programming laboratory, microprocessor laboratory, computer architecture laboratory and software engineering laboratory. I should emphasis that this is a scholastic laboratory.

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UPDATE: I just want a lab which students learn every thing about networks in it, and managing this lab should be easy.

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Do you need hardware access? I mean plugging in like custom lab equipment via USB, PCI lab board, serial port controlled equipment etc., or do we talk of computer level work only (programming, "standard" peripherals)? – TomTom May 4 '10 at 10:19
Thank you TomTom, yes all ports needed. – Hossein Margani May 5 '10 at 10:10
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few thoughts - surely not a definitive answer.

virtualization will probably be a way to go - at least as much as you can. maybe desktops that have some sort of trimmed down version of linux which provides all remote-work tools + few virtualization servers that can host different environments - windows/linux/anything else. with snapshots you have easy way of rolling back.

you probably want a centralized management both for desktops and servers - so they get out of date.

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so they get out of date or so that they don't get out of date? – Moshe Sep 26 '10 at 9:16
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