I'm a CAD manager for a large department. Over the years the department has purchased CAD/Engineering laptops in batches, so the hardware/firmware/etc. is all over the place. I'm trying to find a way with either a Docker ore Kubernetes, or something that would be able to run the same on every machine, I'm thinking of some sort of virtual environment that takes all the variability out of it. Additionally it would allow me to sandbox software upgrades, settings changes, config.pro setting changes and so on before deploying to a group, I have 20 drafters. We run Creo 9, Windchill 13, but we also run Solidworks 22, and ACAD 24 on occasion. Is there any solution that fits this? I looked at VM's with a type 2 hypervisor VBOX, but it requires installing another OS in it to install the CAD software burdening the system even more. I think that would be to resource intensive and the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze. Any advice would be appreciated. Even pointing me in a direction to research would be a great help.
thanks in advance.
