Login PI

What's New in Login PI 3.5?

Netscaler, SLA Reporting, Event Logging features and so much more! At the end of June, we released a new version of Login PI 3 bursting with new features and enhancements. There are so many that I could write pages of blog about it, but let’s just keep it simple and focus on some of the big items.

What’s New & Different - Introducing Version 3.4 of Login PI

We've updated Login PI, the benchmark in unplanned-change and gradual-deterioration detection for VDI. New features include improving the way information is collected & distributed, the way customized workloads are created & the way actual tests are executed.

Microsoft has just announced the public preview of their new Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) offering at Microsoft Ignite on Tour in Amsterdam today.

For those of you who’ve not followed the rumors or the private beta, here’s the outline...

As many companies do, we use a CRM system.

Recently, I have been getting complaints about our cloud CRM system, Microsoft Dynamics, being slow. I tried to investigate this by shadowing one of our users to see what was wrong.

Together Login VSI and IGEL deliver deep application test and availability monitoring for the digital workspace

This week we announced a partnership with IGEL that enables Login PI integration in a radical new way.

I love the flexibility of the virtual user, it can handle any application & goes as deep into the application as you like.

Of course the desire to customize workloads to include, for example, your CRM, an Electronic Health Record or Finance application, increases.

Over the last week I’ve had the opportunity to install Login PI within the Nutanix Ready lab. Let’s dig into the configuration, and some points I observed. The purpose of Nutanix Ready is to confirm that a software solution is capable of being operated on their platforms. This demonstrates compatibility and capacity.

The previous blog post explained the basics around using the Login PI RESTful API through Powershell. This blog post will build on that foundation to change the workload assigned to profiles based on a CSV file instead of assigning the same workload to each server.

For a large Login PI deployment a method was needed to change the workload on all profiles. The Login PI RESTfull API (API) easily enables this. To get started create a Powershell script. For this blogpost the Windows Powershell ISE was used.

Login PI quietly turned two years old recently. As we prepare for the upcoming release of Login PI 2.0, let’s take a quick look back at the history of Login PI, and then a look forward at what’s coming up.