Cut throat time lines are always a part of System/Network engineering deployments. And its a challenge to maintain the consistency of the deployments. I have come across few tools which are very handy in Bulk deployments especially in Data center environment.
1. EDA : This is a very good tool if you are playing with VMware ESX. The download is coming as a VM image of Ubuntu 8.04.
Just download the image, unzip on your VM box and do the basic configuration and you are ready to go!. It got some add on scripts to which can be incorporated for specific needs.
2. UDA : This is again a VM image of TFTP + DHCP Server. This can be used to deploy M$ and *nix systems. It may need some customization for match your OS needs. But still pretty handy one.
3. Conventional PXE boot server : Nowadays setting a PXE boot server is not a difficult job. Need to load TFTP,DHCP server and a file share server.
CentOS wiki got a straight forward 'How to' to setup a PXE boot server.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup
Note : Be careful while keeping these installation in production and corp environment since all these VM instances are running with a DHCP/TFTP server and this can give surprise to your corp users.
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