Login VSI 2.0 Beta 3
Being one of the developers of Login VSI of course i have to want to post something about it, but since we at IThastobeCool want to give you something special i decided to create a video of what Login VSI really does.
The video shows you the “Medium” user workload of Login VSI Express (read: Free) in this session we measure user experience by timing window events. You can imagine running this test with one user does not tell you the performance of the server but look what happens when you add 287!
“Login VSI 2.0 is the second iteration of Login VSI 1.0: the free and specifically designed benchmark for SBC and VDI environments. VSI 2.0 introduces completely new workloads, and a improved and more accurate index called VSImax. Overall, VSI 2.0 will be a much smoother experience, many best practices and lessons learned from project VRC are now included in this release. The free version will now be called “Login VSI 2.0 Express”, the advanced version is called “Login VSI 2.0 PRO”. The most important new 2.0 features are:
Workload(s) re-build from scratch
· New, more realistic, medium workload (now 10 instead of 18 minutes)
· Real-world end-user websites (with rich flash content)
· Windows 7 and Windows 2008 r2 support
· IE 8 support
· New Zip and PDF printer (BullZip)
· Highly improved robustness (even under extreme loads)
· Improved response timer mechanism and index: VSImax
VSI 2.0 PRO features
· Multilanguage Support (Express only support English OS and Office)
· Detailed logging
· Runtime calibration of timed events and response time measurement using an external SQL server clock (important for hypervisor comparisons)
· Office 2003 and Office 2010 support
· Customization Support (ad your own apps to the VSI workload)
Analyzer Changes
· New VSImax calculation: much more precise
· Automatic renaming of excel files to “testname.xltm”
· Remember settings from last session
AD Setup Changes
· Split system / user policy objects / added Computers OU
· Improved setup user objects (no password expiry etc)
Launcher
· New pre-launch naming of test: no more archiving of tests needed
Login VSI beta can be downloaded from Login VSI download section.
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.