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.
Project Virtual Reality Check
Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best virtualization platform for your specific environment? Project VRC shows you the way!
Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) is a joint venture of Log•in Consultants and PQR, who have researched the optimal configuration for the different available hypervisors (hardware virtualization layers). The project arises from the growing demand for a founded advice on how to virtualise Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop (VDI) workloads. Through a number of researches, Log•in Consultants and PQR show you the scaling possibilities for Terminal Server environments as well as Virtual Desktops.
See www.virtualrealitycheck.net for more details!
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.