Login Consultants has released a Beta version of their Login VSI tool.
According to the company, “Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI), is a free and easy to use benchmarking methodology from Login Consultants. The Login VSI is a complete toolset that allows you to easily compare scalability all of today's major virtualization platforms and technologies. Login VSI supports most recent Windows OS’s (including 32 and 64bit), Office 2003 and 2007, all major application streaming technologies and most importantly both SBC and VDI. The next beta (out in a couple of weeks), will also include full support for benchmarking VDI environments.”
"Because the setup is so simple there is an infinite amount of combinations and technologies you can now compare. For instance, you can also measure the relative impact of a virus scanner or performance optimization technologies. Additionally, Login VSI will be a perfect tool to compare scalability of different virtualization platforms.”
This beta supports:
- Windows 2003 & Windows 2008
- Citrix XenApp 4.5 and Terminal Server
- Support for both Windows 32 bit and Windows x64
- Experimental Support for application streaming
- Office 2003 & 2007
- Semi automatic install of the test application set (95%)\
- 90% automatic configuration of the test settings
- Automatic configuration of Active Directory
- Session launcher with Profile preparation mode for Citrix and Terminal Servers Session launcher using direct RDP or ICA connections Archive option of previous indexing runs
- Automatic graphs of minimum, average and maximum response time
- Automatic Analysis of the benchmark results based on response time (Excel 2007 required)
Login VSI can be download from http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=20&Itemid=149