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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide
APPENDIX A – HOW LOGIN VSI WORKS
After all desktops are idle, Login VSI incrementally logs users into virtual desktop
sessions and begins workloads on each. Login VSI measures the total response times of seven
typical office operations from each session and calculates the VSI Index by taking the average
response times and dropping the highest and lowest 2 percent. The average response time of
the first 15 sessions determines a baseline; the Dynamic VSImax is baseline x 125% +3000ms.
The Login VSI response time is not latency; it is the total time to execute 7 operations
that occur during the 15 minute workload. The seven operations are as follows:
Copying a new document from the document pool in the home drive
Starting Microsoft Word
Starting the File Open dialogue
Starting the Search and Replace dialogue
Starting the Print dialogue
Starting Notepad
Compressing the document into a ZIP file with 7-zip command line
As more sessions begin to consume system resources, response times degrade and the
VSI index increases until it is above the Dynamic VSImax. When this condition is met, the
benchmark records a Login VSImax, which is the maximum number of sessions that the platform
can support.
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