Login VSI 2 – It’s alive!!!
Long awaited and almost here: Login VSI 2.0 after the successes with Login VSI 1.0 and Project Virtual Reality Check we just had to go 2.0, so we dusted off our development machines and testing environment and got working. The first thing we did was gather all bugs annoyances and feature requests that we received when Login VSI 1.0 was released, together with our own best practices and experiences we had a good foundation to start on a solid new version.
At this moment the beta is available for a limited number of test users, these are employees of all the major virtualization vendors, Citrix CTP’s and a number of hand picked VSI 1.0 customers. Do you think you can convince me to also invite you to the beta ? Please drop a line in the comments!
Next you will find a short list of what i think are the most important changes on VSI *note some off these features are not free but Login VSI 2 will also be available in a full functional free version.
· New workloads (Light/Medium/Heavy/Multimedia)
· Informative progress bar during workload execution
· New external clock using SQL for reference purposes (Pro Only)
Analyzer
- Setup supports network installations
- New VSImax calculation: much more precise
- Automatic renaming of excel files to “testname”
Target/workload build from scratch
- New medium and multimedia workload (now 12 instead of 18 minutes)
- More multimedia
- New websites
- Zip support
- 2008 R2 Compatible PDF printer
- IE 8 support
- More reliable than the 1.0 release: “stuck” sessions reduced to minimum
- New timer mechanism (without sleeps to improve measurements in VM’S)
- External reference clock using SQL
- Detailed debug logging
- All configuration moved to central location
Active directory
- Fixed policies for 2003 AD
- Split system / user policy objects
- Added Computers OU
- Improved setup user objects ( no password expiry etc)
- Streamlined minor setup bugs
Launcher
- New pre-launch naming of test: no more archiving of test needed
As you can see we made a lot of changes, as soon as the beta goes public (this should happen shortly!) i will go into more detail on specific funtions and possibilities with VSI.