IdP & SP testing Environment (VMware)

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
writes:

> * Gilles Badouet <badouetg at uni.coventry.ac.uk> [2013-05-27 22:33]:
>> What issues will I face if I set up an IdP and SP testing environment through VMware workstations.
>> I would like to do so by deploying the SP on a virtualized Windows
>> Server 2008 and the IdP on a virtualized Windows 7.
>> 
>> Any advices?
>
> The presence (or absence) of a hypervisor do not factor into the
> working of the software, generally.
> VMware memory ballooning and Java memory management have been said to
> be a potential issue, maybe check the recent (as in a couple of weeks)
> archives.
> -peter

We are running a handful of SPs for customers, and another handful for
in-house testing, plus an IdP and LDAP server, all on VMs (ESXi vSphere 5.1 hosts) and all
trouble-free.
Admittedly, our IdP to LDAP connection somehow cannot handle more than a
few requests, but this is not a VMware issue.
-- 
Gernot Hassenpflug