Clonezilla Alternative?

[battletoad]

I'm researching options to make lab management easier so that next year can be a walk in the park. Lab computers are dual booting windows and ubuntu. As such, OS specific solutions are out of the window.

I'm currently using clonezilla for deploying images to a 50pc lab. Works fine, no real issues on the installing side.

However, it'd be great if I can find software which can load installation images into a VM so I can add/remove software. As it stands, I will need to deploy the image to a VM, make changes, then overwrite the original image on the imaging server. Time consuming to say the least.

Wishlist:
1. Multicast imaging to lab pcs.
2. Images can be loaded into VM without needing to be deployed to at first, nor overwriting old images afterwards.

Everything else can be done with say a NodeJS server-client configuration for pushing changes such as changing pc names, shutdown, etc. (hopefully I'm not overestimating NodeJS here, but I probably am overestimating my skills)

Anyone know of software that satisfies my wishlist?

 

[ponder]

Only other thing that comes to mind for me is FOG but I'm not sure if it will meet all your requirements.
http://www.fogproject.org/

 

[shadow_man]

I had endless issues with Fog for windows images and uefi bios's. I wouldn't recommend it...

You can try acronis true image (but its paid for)

 

[battletoad]

Only other thing that comes to mind for me is FOG but I'm not sure if it will meet all your requirements.
http://www.fogproject.org/

I had endless issues with Fog for windows images and uefi bios's. I wouldn't recommend it...

You can try acronis true image (but its paid for)

I played around with FOG before clonezilla. I like that it has a web interface, didn't get it to work consistently though (old PXE support in clients).

Acronis true image seems to do what I need. Will have a look at the demo version. Thanks for the heads up