Project VRC Phase II:
Latest generation virtualization techniques doubles capacity terminal servers
With that statement Ruben and Jeroen have just released Phase II of Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) to create this whitepaper they have done more than 150 tests with Login VSI to measure the performance of servers while being stressed by a great amount of simulated users. This whitepaper has a few advantages to whitepapers published by the vendors themselves and whitepapers published by blogs that are only testing one hypervisor:
- The whitepaper is truly independent
- The whitepaper is approved by the different vendors
- Everybody can repeat the tests with the free available Login VSI
- The authors aren’t biased
- You can compare the results easily (the servers have been stressed the same way)
One of the most interesting conclusions of Phase II: The performance increase measured is not caused by improvements to the hypervisor but mainly by Intel’s innovations in the Nehalem architecture VRC states that it can be almost solely accredited for the performance improvements seen with TS workloads.
Get your free copy of the whitepaper at www.projectvrc.com
Independent benchmarking
Wohoo!! When we where creating Login VSI we had a few goals in mind, one of them is becoming the de facto standard for benchmarking virtual environments (TS/VDI/Bare metal etc). And i have to say: something is happening in the industry. To begin with we have Project VRC by Ruben and Jeroen but recently Citrix published some rather interesting whitepapers.
- Official Citrix Whitepaper with 5000 XenDesktop users. http://bit.ly/c5a0n5
Use free and reputable tools like LoginVSI from Login Consultants to simulate real-worldlike
user workloads.
- Official Citrix Whitepaper Single server scalability with XenDesktop http://bit.ly/b4MH75
VM density results are highly dependent upon workload characteristics. We used a
workload called Login VSI, created by an independent company, Login Consultants.
Login VSI, is well known in the VDI and terminal services community with testing of
8 various terminal services and VDI solutions from multiple vendors in a comprehensive,
ongoing test project called Project Virtual Reality Check.
Application Virtualization Comparison Chart
The guys at virtualfuture.info have released a new version of their Application Virtualization Comparison Chart. This document compares all of the major products in the application virtualization market.
| Symantec | Software Virtualization Solution 6.1 Workspace Streaming 6.1 |
| Microsoft | Application Virtualization 4.5 CU1 |
| Citrix | XenApp 5.0 & Streaming Profiler 1.3.1 |
| InstallFree | Bridge 1.9.2.6 |
| VMware | ThinApp 4.0.3 (Build 3313) |
| XenoCode | Virtual Application Studio 2009 SP1 |
In this document not only the performance counts but also the feature lists are compared and put together in an easy to read overview. I have to say: Great job guys!
Want to read this document yourself ? Click here to go to virtualfuture.info
Login VSI
It is official
Login VSI 1.0 is released. Now everybody can start benchmarking.
The Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) is a free and platform independant benchmark for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Terminal Services. This 1.0 release has been fully tested, the workload has been carefully tuned, and now publication of your own results is allowed. As usual, login VSI is a free download from loginconsultants.com.
Changes for Login VSI 1.0:
• Publication of Login VSI results is now allowed when the Login VSI publication guidelines are used;
• The workload is now tuned and can be categorized to be medium/heavy load of a typical knowledge worker (this is in comparison to average Terminal Server deployments);
• The CPU workload may be categorized as medium/heavy (above average);
• The Memory workload is now medium (slightly above average);
• Many typical beta bug fixes, Login VSI is now battle proven in the benchmarking project: “Virtual Reality Check” by PQR and Login Consultants;
• Improved schema to calculate the optimal performance index;
Workload sample Video: checkout http://www.vimeo.com/2749006 to review the workload at 200% speed.