Yeah, from full power off.
I've only tried it a few different ways. But the delay until VMware Tools is loaded (still a little overlap as the machine that just loaded the tools settles down), seems to be the fastest. Fixed delays either have too much contention if set short, or a lull between loads if the delay is set too long. I have the important machines loading in order of importance. Then the workstations coming up in random order.
Really if you think about it, 60 minutes for 60 machines to boot is only 1 minute a machine (it's probably more like 3 minutes per machine with 3 loading at the same time). I don't expect it to be much faster, but still I dread shutting it down, because I know it'll be at least an hour before my phone finally stops ringing.
