Mark just gave me the heads up that he and Jeroen released VSI 2.0!!

I would like to congratulate Mark and Jeroen on this awesome achievement! You guys can be proud of yourselves!!!

The beta 3 was very well received, just a couple minor fixes were required, and we updated the documentation. In comparison to VSI 1.0 we made tremendous improvements in the overall quality and reliability of VSI.

Feel free to mention this on your website (if you think this is interesting of course). We do not have an official press release, but for your convenience we made a summary you can use:

Login Consultants releases the brand new and free VSI 2.0, a specifically designed benchmark for SBC and VDI environments. VSI loads the system with simulated user workload, and focuses on how much users can run on the system before it saturates. VSI is 100% platform and protocol independent, and VSI configuration is simplified and automated where possible. As a result, VSI is a turn-key benchmark solution: perform tests within days instead of weeks. No need to create the workloads first. VSI is intended to be used by VDI/SBC engineers/admins, a degree in testing methodologies is not required.

VSI 2.0 introduces new workloads, and an improved indexing method: VSImax. Overall, VSI 2.0 will be a much smoother experience in comparison to VSI 1.0, many best practices and lessons learned from project VRC are now included in this release. The free version is called “VSI 2.0 Express”, the advanced version is “VSI 2.0 PRO”.

The most important 2.0 features are:

  • Completely new, more realistic, medium workload
  • Support for IE8, Office 2010, Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2
  • Highly improved robustness (even under extreme loads)
  • Improved response timer mechanism and index: VSImax
  • Over 100 fixes and usability improvements
  • Multilanguage Support (PRO only)
  • Other workloads such as: light, heavy and multimedia (PRO only)
  • External clock calibration and response time measurement (PRO only)
  • Customization Support (PRO only)

VSI can be downloaded from Login Consultants download section: http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=20&Itemid=149 .”